Chapter 916: The Fortified City Is Hard to Break
Wang Yu is currently serving as Guo Song's military staff, and after the information is sent, it is first handed over to the staff battalion, and more than a dozen members of the army are responsible for sorting them out, summarizing them and handing them over to Wang Yu, who then goes to the chaff and extracts the essence of it, and processes it to form a piece of extremely valuable information.
There is a large table in the middle of the handsome tent, and there is a large wood carving of Yuancheng on the table, which was sent from Youzhou yesterday, and it took Zhu Tao dozens of craftsmen a year to make it, but it took two years just to send people to Yuancheng to draw in the early stage, and it took three years to make it before and after, and it was placed in Zhu Tao's Yanwang Mansion, and in the end, Zhu Tao did not use it, and Guo Song was cheaper in vain.
Guo Song also prepared to send it to Chang'an after the beginning of spring, but he didn't expect it to be used so soon.
The whole wooden carving is one zhang long and one zhang wide, the wall is two feet high, and the moat is made according to the same proportions.
The craftsmen carved countless villains, siege ladders, trebuchets and the like, which looked like a siege battle.
Wang Yu was carefully looking at this wood-carved city, his eyes showed a look of horror, he couldn't believe that there was such a thing in the world.
"How's this woodcarved city doing?" Guo Song walked into the big tent and asked with a smile.
"So far, I can't find any loopholes, it's simply breathtaking, Your Highness, is this really made by Zhu Tao?"
Guo Song nodded, "Zhu Tao took three years to make it, and after my army captured the Yanwang Mansion, I found it in his study, and I didn't expect to use it so soon." ”
At this time, more than a dozen staff officers were busy placing dozens of small ladders on the moat, countless small people were charging, and many small tents were placed far away from the city.
Guo Song asked, "Didn't they besiege the whole city?" ”
Wang Yu shook his head, "Zhu Zhu set up a big camp three miles outside the west city, and Li Na also set up a big camp three miles outside the east city, there are no camp tents on the north and south sides, and there is no attack, and the attack is also concentrated in the east and west. ”
"How's the battle going?" Guo Song asked again.
Wang Yu said slowly: "According to the latest intelligence summary, Zhu Zhu and Li Na have launched two large-scale siege battles, and the total number of troops invested by both sides is more than 100,000, but both armies have been attacked head-on, and the two siege battles have failed, Zhu Zhu's side has slightly smaller casualties, about seven or eight thousand casualties, and Li Na's side has suffered heavy casualties, I'm afraid it is close to 20,000." ”
Guo Song frowned, "Why is it so serious?" ”
"This is due to the different levels of preparation of the two sides, Zhu Zhu made full preparations, carried a leather shed against boulders, mainly used cloud ladders, did not use siege ladders, and more importantly, every soldier in Zhu Zhu's army was equipped with a shield, while Li Na's army was much shabby, half of the soldiers had no shields, no leather sheds, and used a lot of siege ladders.
As a result, Lina's army was heavily wounded by boulders and bows and arrows during the siege, and intelligence showed that the defenders used fire oil against Lina's army, burning countless soldiers under the city. ”
Guo Song looked at the east side of the wood-carved city wall, and he found that the size of the battalion of Li Na's army was about the same as that of Zhu Zhu's army, so he asked, "Is the number of Li Na's army the same as that of Zhu Zhu's army?" ”
"Your Royal Highness, in this mold, a small tent represents 10,000 people, Zhu Zhu has 100,000 people, and Li Na has 80,000 people, and the difference between the two is 20,000."
Guo Song said lightly: "There are 20,000 casualties, does Li Na still have the confidence to fight?" ”
"Actually, this is what the humble post wants to say, Weizhou should be owned by Zhu Jun, Li Na is at most a little bit of people and property, the humble post feels that if Li Na continues to fight, the gains will outweigh the losses, and the humble post estimates that he has begun to waver, and he has the idea of withdrawing the army."
Guo Song said lightly: "Then help him again and let him evacuate as soon as possible!" ”
Wang Yu rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "I think of a plan for my humble position, and Your Highness can refer to one or two details." ”
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"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”
The drums on the battlefield were like thunder, and the two armies of Zhu Zhu and Li Na once again launched a siege war, the soldiers ran with their shields held high, spears were like forests, and the dust was all over the sky, and dozens of huge leather sheds were pushed slowly forward by the soldiers, which were smeared with a lot of grease, even if they were hit by boulders, they would not be solid, and they could effectively resist the blows of the trebuchets in the city.
A large number of soldiers stood under the leather shed, following the leather shed and slowly moving forward.
In addition, there are dozens of ladders, ladders are different from siege ladders, siege ladders are close to the city wall, with the front hook hung on the city wall, and the ladder is a platform, from the platform to extend the ladder, can be converted, can be folded, very light and practical.
The ladder also had four large wheels, which were pushed forward slowly, and huge boulders continued to roar and fly on the top of the city, smashing into the crowd, and suddenly blood was splashed, and more than a dozen people were killed and injured.
"Boom!"
A boulder hit a ladder, the wooden wheel of the ladder broke, and it fell to the ground on its side, and the surrounding soldiers scattered in all directions.
But the boulder could not stop the mighty advance of the tens of thousands of troops, and when the army reached the moat, thousands of arrows were fired at the head of the city, and the dense arrows shot at the soldiers under the city like a storm.
In the midst of the increasing casualties, tens of thousands of Zhu Zhu's army pushed the ladder and carried the siege ladder, rushing towards the city wall like a tide.
At the same time, the siege in the east was a different story, with tens of thousands of troops lined up a mile away and never attacked.
Li Na was very hesitant, the attack for several days in a row caused him heavy casualties, more than 19,000 casualties made him a little unbearable, even if he captured Yuancheng, what could he get? Money, food, population? Thinking of the large number of people in Bozhou and Dezhou migrating north, his heart tightened for a while, and the people of Hebei did not agree with Qi at all.
"Lord Wang, do you want to attack?" A senior general asked.
"Wait a little longer!"
Li Na was a little impatient and said, "No one is allowed to attack without my order!" ”
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The large camp of the Qi army was also three miles away, and the main army was lined up to go to the battlefield, and there were only a few thousand soldiers guarding the large camp, and there were also two thousand logistics troops, including grooms, cooks, and so on.
At this time, a convoy of grain arrived at the camp, consisting of five hundred ox carts, from Bozhou, loaded with a large amount of grain, flanked by cavalry guards.
The general on duty at the gate of the camp checked the documents as usual, turned around and waved his hand, "Open the door!" ”
The gate of the barracks opened, the mighty convoy drove into the camp, of course, the ox cart was forcibly requisitioned from Bozhou, all the coachmen were the owners of the ox carts, they drove the carts to the rear camp of the warehouse, some of the carts only had one coachman, some were two, mainly for the convenience of handling.
The warehouse area and the barracks are separated, there is a long fence to separate, and the entrance to the warehouse area is heavily guarded, but the grain trucks can enter, and the big trucks drive into the warehouse area, and stop at a large warehouse tent, and the drivers begin to unload the grain.
There was chaos in front of the tent, and one coachman, under the cover of several other drivers, rolled into the tent.
"Hurry up!"
The cavalry was urging the coachman: "Hurry out after unloading the grain!" ”
The grain did not need to be carried by the drivers, and a cart had dozens of bags of grain, and in only a quarter of an hour, the cart had finished unloading the grain, and the drivers drove the carts out.
The gate of the warehouse was slammed shut, and more than 100 soldiers began to use wheelbarrows to deliver food into the big tent.
At this time, the coachman hiding in the warehouse tent had already changed to a big tent, this coachman was Zhou Fei pretending, he received an order early in the morning, ordering him to burn down the Qi army camp as soon as possible.
At this time, he wanted to infiltrate the Qi army's camp to find out the amount of grain and grass of the Qi army, and he immediately decided to take advantage of this opportunity to act.
Zhou Fei was in a forage warehouse tent at this time, he had taken off his outer robe, and he was wearing the armor of the Qi army inside, and in the huge warehouse where he was, bundles of hay were neatly stacked and piled up.
Zhou Fei took out a fire fold from his waist, shook it gently, the fire fold burned in the wind, he threw the fire fold into the hay pile, calmly watched the fire spread rapidly, he turned around, and drilled out from the other corner of the big tent.
Here the big tents are next to each other, and the soldiers are carrying food, and there are no patrol soldiers.
Zhou Fei gently crossed the dividing fence and entered the accommodation area, where there were also very few soldiers, he lit ten big tents, and the fire fold on his body was gone, at this time, there was a faint sound of war horses in front, he galloped a few steps, only to see a war horse tied to the horse post.
Zhou Fei was overjoyed, turned over on his horse, swung his sword and cut the reins, and a general ran out of the big tent, and asked sharply: "Who are you, why did you steal my war horse?" ”
Zhou Fei didn't say a word, swung his sword and slashed away, the general was caught off guard, was slashed by a sword in the neck, and his head flew out.
"There's a fire!"
There was a shout in the distance, and I saw a thick smoke around the forage tent, and the flames soared into the sky, and dozens of large tents were set on fire.
Zhou Fei urged the horse to gallop towards the west camp gate.
The soldiers at the gate of the camp also saw the smoke billowing from the tent, and suddenly saw a sergeant galloping on horseback.
"What happened?" The crowd asked aloud.
"The logistics camp is on fire, I'll go and inform the prince!"
The soldiers did not stop, and Zhou Fei rushed out of the camp and galloped to the north.