The ancients of the Han Dynasty were still quite weak for siege warfare!

Even until the end of the Tang Dynasty, the large-scale use of gunpowder before the war, the siege of the city is a heavy and protracted drudgery, if the defense of the city is determined and desperate, then it is a complete disaster for the besieging side, just like the battle of Suiyang in the Anshi Rebellion, Zhang Xun District relied on cannibalism to resist the Anshi rebel Yin Ziqi's 170,000 army for more than half a year, and even killed and injured many, effectively protecting the Huaiyang lifeline on which the Tang Dynasty depended.

There is another example or Suiyang, during the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, more than 200,000 Wu Chu rebels attacked Suiyang, and the king of Liang Xiao cried and asked Emperor Wen of Han for help every day, but it was also a full half year of war, Suiyang stood tall, but Zhou Yafu tens of thousands of people cut off the grain route from the south of the Wu Chu rebels, and beat hundreds of thousands of rebels of the vassal kingdom in one go.

Compared with these two wars, Cao Jun's attack on Pengcheng was quite smooth step by step.

The art of war: the siege of the city has pro, hook, ladder, moth, ***, suddenly, moth fu, Xuan car, Xuan car, hollow, a total of 12 kinds, of which Xuan car, Yi chariot are large siege equipment, rushed to carry and use, Cao Cao is the hook acupoint, ladder protrusion empty several methods are all used, in the west of Pengcheng excavation of the mountain, five thousand archers, overwhelming shooting, another in the southeast digging tunnel, digging a large piece, Wang Hou when the time comes, telescope looking, thousands of Cao Jun on the city wall are wheeling hooks to hold ladders to climb up, At the gap, Xiahoudun Li Dian personally led the team and fought with the guarded Pengcheng clan soldiers, and gradually defeated the other party.

Looking at the blood boiling on the front line, Wang Hou led Cao Hongjie and his grain guard captain Zhao Yun to rush inside, and was excavated by the people who arrived in advance on the dirt mountain, Cao Cao also took Cao Hongjie back from Wang Hou's hands, and the earthen telescope embedded in the wooden tube inspected the battlefield back and forth, obviously, he was quite satisfied with this siege battle.

"Prime Minister, the next official transported grain to Pengcheng, which lost 800 stone of wheat due to capsizing, and arrived at ...... wheat."

"Tuqiu, come and see! This is the siege technique, the arrow hill destroys the enemy's will, breaks the enemy's wall in the hollow, and then attacks it with the warrior and the strong ant, the world is strong, there is no one who cannot be broken! ”

"In the future, you will also stand alone for your own side and break the city, but you have to learn a thing or two!"

Interrupted Wang Hou's report, Cao Cao was showing off, if it was someone else, listening to this show-off, he would have already been sycophant, and the admiration was like the flowing water of the Yangtze River, surging endlessly, and like the flooding of the Yellow River, it was out of control! But seeing thousands of people rushing up with the ladder in a daze, a few people above took the pole and fell down a large piece, and several people were stoned to death by throwing stones from above, the corners of Wang Hou's mouth couldn't help twitching, and it was difficult to report back.

"The prime minister is wonderful, the minister, that, it's not ......"

This is also the last day of the siege, it took seventeen days, the soldiers and Zhuang Ding dispatched a total of 80,000, Cao Jun finally "brilliantly" broke through the "army" of Lu Bu more than 700, plus relying on hatred on the last two Cao Cao looted and slaughtered more than 900 soldiers of the local clan in Xuzhou as the main defense force of Pengcheng.

However, as long as the three words of Bapeng City are added to this battle, it is brilliant enough.

On the streets of Pengcheng, which had already been ruined after several battles, Xiahoudun Li Dian, who had entered the city first, was riding on a horse and was proudly worried about his stomach, and although the sergeants behind him were also exhausted and scarred, his expression was still full of pride.

Cao Cao was the first to be invited into the city from the dirt mountain at the moment when the city was broken, and at the entrance of the yamen, under the custody of Cao Jun, he was captured by the local Huang, Deng, Ren, Zheng and other clan elders who were dejected, trembling and kneeling to meet them, in their frightened eyes, the spirit of the high-spirited Cao always appeared in front of them.

In the future, Cao Cao will face the rule of Xuzhou, Cao Cao is also rare to start benevolence and virtue to buy people's hearts, there are words to say how to beg the thief on behalf of the heavens is the righteous side, what crime have you committed in stubborn resistance, but Lao Tzu is generous, how to pardon you Yunyun, and immediately issued an order to rectify military discipline, not allowing soldiers to rob the people.

It's just that in the face of Pengcheng, where the market is dilapidated and the people are ten households and nine empty, it is really unknown how effective this belated benevolence will be now.

These still have nothing to do with Wang Hou for the time being, now he only cares about how to keep his head, tossed in Surabaya for seventeen days, and consumed the remaining 150,000 stone grain by him and moved it to the outside of Pengcheng City, but after all, there is no safety outside the city, the soldiers who besieged the city began to draw the spoils of war, and for the sake of his own head, Wang Hou worked tirelessly to urge those people under his command to grit his teeth and resist these heavy piles of grain into the official warehouse in the city.

However, there is another fluttering moth!

The relics of the ancient Roman Empire in later generations are preserved quite completely, and the ruins of the Roman city are left in front of people's eyes everywhere, becoming a world-renowned civilization and cultural heritage, but China claims to be an ancient country of 5,000 years of culture, and is in a cemetery, leaving the longest history is only the city palace around the Song Dynasty, and the Tang City of only one dynasty before has been dilapidated, not to mention the Qinguan of Hancheng, which has a longer history.

But it's no wonder that the devastating wars of antiquity were too devastating for the construction of these civil structures! Pengcheng was built from the Spring and Autumn Song Dynasty, and at the end of the Qin Dynasty, it was once used as the capital by Xiang Yu, but now, not to mention the relics left by Xiang Yu, the Guancang Pavilion that was built in the Eastern Han Dynasty has collapsed more than half, leaving only a crumbling rubble ruins, lying on the edge of the military camp in the east of the city.

"Transporter, what should I do?"

The chief of the Minfu Pavilion who was driving the ox cart and carrying the burden was dumbfounded, and gathered one by one like headless flies, asking Wang Hou for orders, but not to mention them, even Wang Hou himself was dumbfounded.

Although it is now the end of September and almost October, converted to the Gregorian calendar, it is almost November, and the rainy season in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has long passed, but the air is still wet and cold, moist and cold, which has made Wang Hou experience the difference between the cold physical attack in the north and the cold magic attack in the south.

After being stunned for a few seconds, Wang Hou waved his hand helplessly and ordered.

"Hold off the food from entering the city first! Congge, you go and inform the lieutenant of Yin's subordinate school, recruit 3,000 people from the people, and first repair this official warehouse area, at least dig out all the warehouse pits! Hoard all the food in it! Cover with straw! ”

"Little obedience!"

Although the official warehouse was almost destroyed, but the ancients built the granary is still very scientific, the location here must be the driest place in the whole Pengcheng, even if there is no ground building, it is better than piling up outside the city directly facing the river fog in Surabaya, anyway, just after Pengcheng, how to repair the whole two or three days, sharpen the knife and do not cut the wood, Wang Hou is helpless to give an order.

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If you want to say that it is still very cool to be an official, you only need to gently move your mouth with a word, and the people below will do everything, the city captured at about one o'clock in the afternoon, and in the evening, at least the northern part of the official barracks is restored to order, thousands of people are busy in the ruins of the messy official warehouse, carrying out the collapsed pillars, what rotten straw roofs, the old grain that has rotted under the warehouse, and I don't even know how a few corpses died inside, and the rotten and disgusting old corpses can be cleaned up, this kind of tattered pile at the door, There are only one neatly arranged grain hoarding pit after another, which is quite pleasing to the eye.

Now Wang Hou has begun to change the diet of the late Han Dynasty, next to the official warehouse construction site, those heavy grinding discs were pulled and rotated by the oxen, and the flour that had just been sifted with a dustpan was immediately raised by the water, and on the other side, it was also on the earthen stove that had just been built, and the layers of cage drawers exuded heat, and the big steamed buns that had just been steamed were directly transported to the barracks in accordance with Cao Cao's orders, and the freshly cooked pork and beef were treated to the sergeants.

As for the generals, they always had privileges, in the farmhouse near the city, the eggs that the old peasants "offered" were broken by a basket of bars, and the egg whites and yolks were mixed into the noodles, and dozens of women kneaded the noodles with black slaps while picking their noses, and finally they were stuffed into some eye-piercing straight tubes, squeezed hard with stones, and a strip of salty noodles was put out.

Throw it into the old hen soup that the old farmers in Pengcheng "willingly" came into, roll a few times, and bring the meat in the bucket to mention the Chinese army, even if it is Mr. Cao, he is holding a big bowl to eat, as for Xiahoudun, Cao Ren and other generals, they are all eaten out of the big snot, and they don't care about blowing it, so they take it back and snort and stuff the noodles in their mouths.

There are no tricks, the march and the war, the food is too monotonous, and even eating a hot meal is enjoyable, not to mention the golden noodles cooked in the fragrant old hen soup.

Eat more vegetarian than cattle, dry more than cattle, is talking about our crossing model Wang Hou, the city is broken, you have to reward the soldiers, and he found a big job, organized the people to kill pigs and slaughter girls, washed vegetables and cooked until seven or eight o'clock in the evening, he took the opportunity to take a breath and eat something.

also picked out a bowl of chicken noodle soup from the Chinese army, and took advantage of his power to take out a big chicken leg from the pot, and inserted chopsticks into the bowl, just like a starving ghost to survive, and stuffed noodles into his mouth with a sigh.

But before he could swallow a bite of chicken, he was so frightened that he coughed and squirted out of the noodles he had just eaten, and he threw the bowl aside angrily and turned his head, but it was several people who surrounded a big log, stupidly watching the transfer make the adults angry.

"What are you doing!!

"Go back to the ......, go back to the transfer envoy, there is not enough firewood in the room, the small ones ......, the small ones go to the official warehouse to get a few pieces of wood, and when they come back, they want to burn it as firewood, so that the transfer envoy fertilizes the small ones and deserves death!"

On the same side, the good-tempered Wang Hou was also stupidly cried by these ancient people who had never seen the world, and his temper became irritable and ruthless, jumping and scolding people at two ends for three days, and several people were so frightened that they were trembling, crying and explaining with a sad face.

"Firewood?"

Stunned, his eyes fell on the big wood, Wang Hou's face was painful, Jia Yi's "On the Passage of Qin" in the Ding bell jade, gold nuggets and beads are to make these few losers deduce a vividly, this pillar girder to build the official warehouse, using the best Huangshan cypress, don't think that wood is cheap in ancient times, such a good sorghum wood, even if it has been thrown in the ruins for several years, it is still not rotten at all, and it is worth almost a bucket of grain, almost let these uneducated firewood burn!

"Carry it back! Firewood, pick up broken wood, straw or something, burn! Such a high-quality and complete beam and wood will be hoarded by the official, and then a corner will be chopped, and the official will suck your belly! Get out! ”

The officials crushed people to death, not to mention the officials and their lowest-level civilians, in Wang Hou's shouting, these people were crying with old faces, and they carried the big wood back.

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After all, the military situation was like fire, and Cao's army only rested for three days after the siege of the city for seventeen days, and was immediately organized by Cao Cao to continue to advance south along Surabaya to attack Picheng, Lu Bu's old nest, so as to end this bitter war in the cold winter and the moon as soon as possible.

Following the army, Wang Hou's logistics baggage team also carried things forward, but this time, in addition to a bucket of grain, there were piles of rags on the grain ship that went down.

First of all, the beams and timbers removed from the collapsed officialdom houses were bundled down the mouth, and then the iron rods used in the house were piled up in bundles in a corner of the grain ship.

This toss, not to mention the bitterness of the people under his command, even the civil officials who followed Cao Cao shook their heads, and following Cao Cao's side, Wang Hou's nemesis Yang Xiu deliberately frowned and sighed deeply.

"In Xudu, every household collects night incense, and when I came to this Pengcheng, there was a lot of uproar, Wang Lingguan is really ......, and he is really diligent and thrifty!"

This is ironic! Marching and fighting, not a kilogram of carrying is cherished and precious, this Hongnong genius is obviously sarcastic Wang Hou stupidly picking up garbage.

Cao Cao, who heard this, also frowned and opened his mouth to speak, but after hesitating for a few seconds, the words were actually swallowed back by him.

Xu Du collected night incense and once became the laughing stock of the upper-class scholars, but as a result, Cao Cao saw it in his eyes, and 5,000 acres of land harvested nearly 40,000 stone of grain! On average, one acre of land has eight stones, which is four times the yield per mu of Shangtian in this era! As soon as this incident came out, the nearby dung was valued, and the Xiahou family, the Xun family, and the Zhong family also began to hoard manure, waiting for next year's field, although this time I don't know what Wang Hou is doing with a pile of broken wood, but Cao Cao decided to believe him!

In the midst of all kinds of ridicule and Cao Cao's silence, Wang Hou picked up a lot of rags, but he still trekked with him for five days and arrived at his destination.

On October 11, in the heavy snow that had been falling in Huaibei, Cao Jun once again hit the city of Xiapi City like a computer game clearance.

Lu Bu's lair!