"If the army of the Eastern Wei Dynasty attacked the Jade City, it would be equivalent to the gate of the Western Wei Dynasty being breached, then the Western Wei Dynasty would face immeasurable losses, and even the disaster of annihilation, so the Western Wei people must defend the Jade City to the death and prevent the Eastern Wei army from attacking it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

We have already mentioned the terrain of Yubi City before - it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is extremely steep, so Gao Huan, a powerful minister of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and his 140,000 horses did not dare to attack rashly when they arrived outside Yubi City.

At this time, there were only thousands of soldiers guarding Wei Xiaokuan in the Western Wei Dynasty, and when he learned that hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Eastern Wei Dynasty were approaching the city, the general Wei Xiaokuan did not panic, he knew that the terrain of Yubi City was known as 'natural danger', and it was naturally much more difficult for Gao Huan's people to attack them on the top of the mountain from the deep ditch, so he sent troops to closely monitor the movements of Gao Huan's people, and arranged several teams of men and horses to wait for orders at any time.

After all, Gao Huan was a battle-hardened person, and he quickly thought of a way to deal with Wei Xiaokuan - he ordered his subordinates to build a hill higher than Yubi City in the south of the city, in an attempt to attack Yubi City from a high position.

Seeing this, Wei Xiaokuan sent people to raise the towers with wood on the two towers of Yubi City, making them higher than the hills of Gaohuan, and prepared a large number of defensive weapons and sent people to watch and guard them day and night.

Gao Huan smiled contemptuously when he saw it, and sent someone to Wei Xiaokuan to say: "Even if you take the city tower higher than the sky, it is useless, I can still dig holes to conquer you", so Gao Huan sent people to dig tunnels, a total of more than ten dug, these tunnels dug straight to the north of Yubi City.

The north side of the Jade City is high and the valley is deep, and the terrain is more dangerous than the other sides, Gao Huan plans to use Li Yexing's 'Lonely Void Method', and after the tunnel is opened, he will mobilize a large number of people to attack the past to capture the north side of the Jade City.

After Wei Xiaokuan learned about it, he sent people to dig a very long ditch in the north of Yubi City, and used this long ditch to intercept Gao Huan's tunnel, and dispatched excellent troops to guard the ditch, whenever someone crossed the tunnel to the ditch, they caught or killed it, and sent people to pile up a large amount of firewood outside the ditch, once they found that there was an enemy in the tunnel, they immediately stuffed firewood and grass into the tunnel, and then threw the fire into it, so that the enemy in the tunnel was burned to death every time they came back to attack.

Gao Huan saw that this plan did not work, so he ordered someone to cut off the water in the upper reaches of the Fen River and divert it to other places.

Because there was no water source in the city, the people in the city had to draw water from the Fen River, and Gao Huan planned to use this method to lure them to surrender.

Wei Xiaokuan immediately ordered people to dig a well in Yubi City to get water, and soon solved the water problem.

Gao Huan was so angry that he strengthened his determination to fight it to the end, so Gao Huan ordered his men to build a kind of sturdy siege chariots and use them to ram the walls of Yubi City.

Sure enough, this chariot was unstoppable wherever it went, and no weapon in the Western Wei Dynasty could match it. Gao Huan was happy when he saw this, thinking that he should be able to capture Yubi City now.

Who knew that Wei Xiaokuan ordered people to make a long and wide curtain, so that it opened in the direction of the chariot attack. Since the cloth was suspended in the air, the chariot could not damage it, but was dizzy and angry by it.

Gao Huan was furious when he saw this, and immediately ordered someone to erect a long pole in front of the car, and tied flammable materials such as hemp rods and pine branches to the long pole, and poured oil on it and lit a fire so that Wei Xiaokuan's curtain could be burned.

When Wei Xiaokuan saw this, he made a long hook knife, and deliberately sharpened the blade to be extremely sharp, and when the fire rod was about to burn to the curtain, he used a long hook knife to cut it far away, and the hemp and pine branches attached to the wooden pole were cut off to the ground one after another. ”

Hearing this, Jiang Yuetang couldn't help but sigh: "This is simply the best interpretation of 'water comes to cover the earth, and soldiers come to block', I have never heard such a wonderful confrontation." ”

"More is yet to come. Shangguan Che said.

Jiang Yuetang continued to listen.

Gao Huan gritted his teeth, and immediately sent people to dig twenty tunnels around Yubi City, and supported them with wooden pillars, and after the tunnels were dug, he set fire to these wooden pillars.

After the wooden pillars were burned, the walls collapsed.

Wei Xiaokuan then sent people to erect a dense wooden fence at the collapse of the city wall to prevent the enemy from attacking.

Gao Huan ordered the soldiers to shoot at Yubi City with 'vultures', and Wei Xiaokuan asked the soldiers in the city to wear masks to protect them.

Gao Huan saw that the hard ones couldn't do it, so he came to the soft ones - ordered someone to persuade Wei Xiaokuan to surrender.

The man persuaded Wei Xiaokuan and said: "My lord, you don't have any rescuers at the moment, which means that you are defending this city alone, I am afraid that you will not be able to hold it in the end, so it is better to surrender as soon as possible, right?"

Wei Xiaokuan replied: "My city is still extremely strong, and there is more than enough food, and there is no need to worry about the future, but you, I'm afraid it will be in vain." He also said: "I am a dignified Kansai man, and I will never be a general." ”

Seeing that the persuasion failed, the people sent there used counter-tactics against the people in Yubi City, saying: "Wei Xiaokuan is so desperate because he received Yuwentai's favor, why do you follow him to the soup?"

The people in Yubi City were unmoved.

Gao Huan shot an arrow with words on it in the jade city, which read: "Whoever can kill Wei Xiaokuan, worship Taiwei, seal the county prince of the founding country, ten thousand households in the city, and reward ten thousand people."

Wei Xiaokuan also wrote a reward after reading this reward article, pasted it on the arrow and shot it back, and the reward text read: "Whoever can kill Gao Huan will receive the same reward." ”

Gao Huan was so angry that he arrested Wei Xiaokuan's nephew, tied him up, put a knife to his neck, and shouted at Yubi City: "If you don't come down early, kill him."

Wei Xiaokuan was still unmoved when he heard this.

The people of Yubi City were all moved by Wei Xiaokuan's righteousness, and they were even more determined to live and die with Yubi City.

By this time, Gao Huan and his soldiers had been fighting hard for 60 days, and the number of dead and wounded soldiers reached as many as 70,000, so Gao Huan ordered a huge pit to be dug and buried all the dead soldiers in it, and he himself was sick and had to retire in disgrace.

After returning to the Eastern Wei Dynasty, Gao Huan was already very ill, in order to boost the morale of the soldiers, he asked Hu Lujin to compose a poem, this poem is called "Song of Eile" (1), Gao Huan himself took the lead in singing harmony, singing and singing and crying. 60 days later, Gao Huan died of depression at the age of 52.

This is the famous battle of jade in history. Gao Huan's siege technique in the Eastern Wei Dynasty and Wei Xiaokuan's siege technique in the Western Wei Dynasty can be said to be used to the extreme extent, and it can also be regarded as the most comprehensive tactical battle in ancient warfare. ”

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Remarks (1): The full poem of "The Song of Eile": Eilechuan, under the Yin Mountain, the sky is like a dome, covering the four fields. The sky is blue, the wilderness is vast, the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep.