In the first battle under Dali City, almost no one was injured in Xuzhou, but more than 100 cavalrymen were shot with bows and arrows alone; In addition, the frontal killing and wounding of Hu soldiers by the "Qiji Battalion" is also similar. ◢ With * dream * small ◢.1a

Pei Gaiben led the generals to watch in the city, and Pei Wei first congratulated: "Ming Gong's clever plan and victory are clear, but he knows that he is empty, and the Hu people are not afraid." Pei Gai waved his hand and smiled: "I know that Yiyu is arrogant and unscrupulous, but I dare to do this, if Liu Yao comes in person, such a trick will be useless." ”

He also knew that Pei Wei was not simply patting on the back, but wanted to take the opportunity to coax his prestige to strengthen everyone's heart to defend the city. I said in my heart: This kind of little trick is like a bridge in the later generations of storytelling and romance, but I didn't expect it to really work...... Sure enough, there is no lower limit to being stupid......

As for the elimination of Yiyu, he was defeated for a while, and was forced to retreat and camp. At dusk that day, Liu Yao personally led the army to come, Yi Yu saw Liu Yao's face, and the first sentence was: "Our army has suffered a setback, this is all the fault of the Song Dynasty, please cut it to the heart of the army!" ”

Song Shi listened to it, and couldn't help but be surprised, and explained in his heart that I had reminded it was a plan by the Jin people to lure the enemy, and you didn't listen to it, resulting in battle damage, if it weren't for my hard battle with the Liangzhou cavalry, it is estimated that your men and horses would have died two or three times more...... How could it be my fault?! Opened his mouth to argue. Yi Yu said: "I only want the Jin people to rely on the city and defend, and I should put arrows on the city to stop me, who knows that they are hiding under the city wall, and they actually build a small fortress behind the trench to secretly ambush the bow and crossbow - Song Shi is the guide, and he doesn't explain it first, isn't it a big crime?" ”

Song Shi said what kind of small base, is that called Yangmayuan? Defending the city is not only to guard the city wall, but also to guard the fortress outside the city, guard the moat, and guard the sheep and horse wall, isn't this common sense, and I need to explain it to you in advance? was so angry that he pulled out his knife, and he was about to put it against Yiyu.

Liu Yao shouted angrily: "Tie up Song Shi!" "You dare to draw a sword in front of me, who taught you the rules?! After inquiring about the battle situation in detail, he comforted Yiyu and said: "When the general first arrived in Jin, he didn't know the tricks of the Jin people guarding the city, and even a small setback, so he should not be responsible. Although Song Shi had a fault, he did not commit a crime that would lead to death. He ordered Song Shi to be temporarily confined and replaced with his younger brother Song Shu as Yiyu's guide.

That night, Liu Yao personally went to visit Song Shi and said to him: "Yiyu is arrogant, so I provoke him to fight with the Jin people, which can reduce the damage of our army." For this reason, he was wronged by Qing, Yao bowed down here, and looked at Qing Haihan. "How dare Song Shi let Liu Yao worship? He bowed his head first: "I don't know the king's original intentions, and I have a conflict with Yiyu, this is a crime, how can there be any grievances?" Song Shi's life is the king's fulfillment, and he is willing to die for the king. If the king wants to appease the wrath of Yiyu, it is also feasible to behead me and serve him. ”

Liu Yao smiled, stretched out his hand and said, "Why is this so?" How can I hurt myself for the sake of a slave? Besides, Yi Yu didn't have any anger, but he just pushed Qing out to blame him, so as to save his own face. ”

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Early the next morning, Liu Yao personally led his generals and rode horses to watch the city defense—but Yiyu found all kinds of excuses and insisted on refusing to follow.

Liu Yao had been stationed in this big city before, and he still had an impression of the general situation. The name of Dali is very ancient, there is a Rong nomadic herding here in the Spring and Autumn Period, that is, it is called "Da Lirong", once waved the teacher to destroy Rui, the title of founding the country, attached to the Jin. About 300 years later, Qin Li Gonggong destroyed the Great Lirong Kingdom, seized its royal city, and set up Linjin County. Not long after, Wei took advantage of the Qin chaos to take Hexi and enter Wei. It was not until after the Shang Dynasty changed the law that Wei was repeatedly defeated by Qin and was forced to shift the center of gravity of his rule to the east, and the land west of the river - Linjin was returned to Qin.

Linjin County of the Qin Dynasty was under the jurisdiction of the internal history, and after the death of Qin, it was returned to Sima Xin, the king of Sai. The Han Dynasty destroyed the Three Qins, Linjin first belonged to Heshang County, and then belonged to the internal history, and in the first year of Emperor Wu's Taichu, the history of Zuo Nei was changed to Zuo Fengyi - but at that time, Linjin was not a county rule. The Eastern Han Dynasty, Wei Dynasty, and Jin Dynasty were probably in the Han and Wei dynasties, and Linjin County was governed by Feng Yi County - because today's Feng Yi County is more than twice as small as the jurisdiction of the Two Han Dynasty - Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, changed Linjin County to Dali County in his later years.

However, the original royal city of the Great Lirong Kingdom, and the Linjin City of the Qin and Han Dynasty later, are not exactly equal to the current Dali City - the royal city is twenty miles away from the east of Dali, and the old Linjin City is two miles southwest of it, and the ruins still exist. Today's Dali (Linjin) city was newly built in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and it may be less than a hundred years old.

As a county office, plus Feng Yi is a place of ointment in Guanzhong, so the scale of Dali City is not small, with a circumference of nearly thirteen miles, and the wall is five zhang high, just because of the repeated soldiers at the end of the Jin Dynasty, resulting in many collapses, and the defense has been greatly weakened. Before Liu Yao retired and returned to the north, he had intended to repair Dali City, but unfortunately it had not been completed.

This was the case with the original Dali, but what about now? In Liu Yao's eyes, the walls of the four directions have been completely repaired, there are no more cracks and gaps, and it seems that the city walls have also been slightly heightened. Outside the four walls, near the city gate and the corners, sheep and horse walls were built, about five feet high, and it was faintly visible that there were soldiers hidden inside. The moat was clearly widened and dug deep, and the Beiluo water ring was injected into it.

The most conspicuous thing is that outside the city gate, a suspension bridge was built that was not common in those years, made of wooden planks up to a foot thick, about a foot wide, suspended by a thick rope like an arm, and I don't know how much manpower it takes to pull it up - Liu Yao naturally couldn't think of a wheel or a winch for a while.

Because it is located in the plain area, there is no danger outside the city to defend, so there is no outer fort to respond, but in the south of the city to dig a ditch to communicate with the north Luoshui, along the canal to build a lot of earth forts, the flag on the fort flutters, there are clearly soldiers to guard.

With such a strong city defense and such a huge project, how did Pei Gai basically complete it in just a few months? I really can't figure it out if I really broke Liu Yao's head.

- Actually, it's very simple, Pei should repair the city, there are only two tricks, one is "work for relief", and the other is "three days and four nights". As soon as he entered Dali City, he occupied the treasury and controlled the channels for grain import in various places, so that the people could not easily obtain grain; Then, under the pretext that Hu Kou was about to attack, he asked each household to contribute labor and work in groups to assist in repairing the city defenses—not to do day work, but to take care of food and housing, and to reward the teams whose projects were faster and had no accidents.

The officials of these years, whether it is the Western Jin Dynasty or the Hu Han, like to drive the people to work for free, so who is willing to work hard for you? Pei should know that if the military is completely used to repair the city, it will inevitably affect the training, and if you want the people to act, you must give enough benefits. It's just that he first stuck the food source, and then used labor to distribute the grain, which is like a "sniper man".

The more Liu Yao observed the situation of the city guards, the more worried he became. Liu Dan took the opportunity to say: "If our army is stationed in Haoyang soon, and rushes south, the city will not be so solid." "The implication is that who made you listen to Liu Jun's nonsense? Military problems are military problems, and they should be linked to politics - if you can't win on this battlefield, no matter how much you calculate, it's in vain!

Liu Jun didn't think it was wrong, but just smiled: "Pei Wenyue has hills and ravines in his chest, that is, his city defense is not finished, and it is probably not easy to attack." Fortunately, now we have eliminated the ...... "Let the ticket and Qiang hit the wall, let's just take advantage of the drawbacks."

Liu Yao said okay, but ordered Liu Yue to block the east gate, Liu Xian to block the west gate, he set up the camp in the north of Dali City, planning to build a camp and attack tools for five days, and then let Yiyu go to try to attack the city first.

However, the defense of Dali City is so strong, there are 20,000 soldiers in the city, and with the help of the people, Liu Yao feels that even if he has more than 100,000 soldiers and horses now, I am afraid it is not enough...... He also wanted to persuade Pei to retreat, but he didn't dare to send anyone to lobby again, so he just racked his brains, wrote a letter, and sent someone to shoot into the city with a bow and arrow.

Pei should have a letter, expand it and take a look, the content is nothing more than saying that I have been named King Yongzhou, I am going to decide this Yongzhou, why do you want to block the road here? Since the Ru family has recovered Luoyang, why not return to the east by Sima Ye, and what do you want to do in Guanzhong? If you are willing to do so, I will play the Son of Heaven, strike the army and make peace, the two families are bounded by Zunling Mountain and the Yellow River, Henan belongs to the Jin Kingdom, and Hebei and Hexi belong to the Emperor and Han.

In addition, you can mention any other conditions, and I will agree to what I can; Even if the authority is insufficient, I will definitely play my emperor and fight for a good regression for you.

Pei Gai couldn't help laughing and said, "Liu Yao came to see my city, and he was depressed!" Next to him, You Yao reminded him: "I also have to guard against Hu people's pride in me." ”

Pei Cai nodded, picked up the pen, and wanted to write back the book, but he was really impatient and tired of the four liliu, and finally pushed it to You Yao - "I want to watch Qing like a big pen." "You Yao said, I'll write, but I don't know how to answer, what to write?

Pei Cai thought for a while and replied: "First of all, Shen Jinrong is not the righteousness of the two sides, Yunhe West and Hedong are all my Chinese land, and the size cannot be compared with people!" Besides, Liu Yao broke Luoyang before, kidnapped my son of heaven, killed my people, and burned the city palace, and the crime is unforgivable. Therefore, if I want to strike the army, Liu Yao will kill himself and sacrifice his head, then the 100,000 Hu Kou under the city, I should be a bewitched and rebellious people, regardless of the past, I will be allowed to nomadic and reclaim in the two counties of Feng Yi and Beidi, and re-serve as my Jin people! ”

You Yao said steadily, was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "This is very big, Liu Yao will not allow it." ”

Pei Gai smiled and said of course he wouldn't agree, but the letter he wrote, would I agree? Between Jin Rong, is there still the possibility of negotiation and compromise? "Qing's words are sharper, if you can provoke Liu Yao to attack the city in a hurry, it will be regarded as a great achievement."

In the past, the city defense fortifications were not completed, and he was afraid that Liu Yao would go south in a hurry, but now that the project has been dredged, Pei should be worried that Liu Yao would be afraid and dare not attack the city. If Liu Yao is forced to switch to a long-term siege strategy, it will be more troublesome, although the waterway to the south has not been blocked, and the grain route is still smooth, but the problem is not until the autumn harvest, whether it is Xuzhou or Sizhou of Zu Ti, it is estimated that there will not be much relief. Pei Gai used to rely on enough food to raise strong soldiers, but the negative effect was that it was easy to raise the base and quality of rations, but it was difficult to reduce them......

Soldiers who are accustomed to a full meal, once they run out of food and straw and do not see the possibility of solving the problem in a short period of time, their morale and combat effectiveness drop sharply, and needless to mention, they may even mutiny! is really a soldier of the people, even if he is hungry, he can still fight to the death? The nationalist ideas instilled by Pei Gai are not omnipotent, and they can't be eaten after all.

And the weather is impermanent, in case of a poor harvest in Sizhou this autumn, Zu Ti can't supply it, and Xu Fang is thousands of miles away, even if there is surplus grain, it is estimated that there will not be one stone left when ten stones are transported to Feng Yi...... Pei Gai really didn't dare to hit this big luck and take this risk.

Although Hu Jun's food and straw are not abundant, how much is there and how long it is enough to eat, Pei Gai is also bottomless. What if they tighten their belts and eat three or five more days than I have in the city? What to do then?

So, Liu Yongming, don't be cautious, hurry up and attack the city. Once I can lean against the walls of the city and inflict heavy casualties on you, you are a discouraged soldier, and do not rely on rewards and food, and do not think how long you can survive; And the morale of my city will be stronger, and it will not be in the way to eat a few meals at leisure, for the soldiers will be able to see the hope of victory.

Huishu also shot an arrow outside the city, Liu Yao saw it, and he was really furious - You Yao's pen is indeed here, even if he is four and six, he can still get a glimpse of the strong contempt from it, and Liu Yao is not the kind of illiterate Shi Le, how can he not understand it? So he didn't wait for five days, and immediately sent an order to Yiyu, saying that I was going to attack the city tomorrow, and I should take you as the vanguard.

Who thought that Yiyu replied bluntly: Lao Tzu is not going!

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If Yiyu is brave and brainless, it is estimated that his father Quanqu will not dare to hand over tens of thousands of troops to his son. The previous setbacks in front of Dali City were purely due to his shallow understanding of city fortifications. To say that in the area of the old Hanshang County where they were nomadic, there are also many ruins of the city, Di and Qiang, as fortifications, but neither the scale nor the integrity can be compared with Dali City. In Yiyu's old understanding, the so-called city was just a large earthen wall, and as long as I broke through the door and climbed the wall, the battle could be easily won.

It was not until he was frustrated in front of the city that he understood what a city was and why the Chinese could control the huge territory by relying on the dotted cities. As Liu Yao expected, Yi Yu proposed to behead Song Shi, one is to save his own face - I'm not stupid, it's not that I can't fight, it's just that I don't know your Chinese city - and the other is purely anger.

The reason why he refused to follow Liu Yao to see the city defense the next day was not because of Yiyu Ostrich's personality, since he didn't understand, he was simply confused to the end, just because he didn't have the face to show up in front of the Hu Han generals again. In fact, Liu Yao ran to the east of the city with his front foot, Yiyu changed into a pawn's clothes, pretended to be a ranger, and ran to the west of the city with his back foot. Along the way, he saw that everything was new, not only was there a heavy low wall (sheep and horse wall) outside the city wall, but there were also wooden planks (suspension bridges) on the moat, and this wooden plank could be easily suspended!

Although he didn't understand the explanation, Yi Yu relied on his years of experience in marching and fighting, and carefully pondered, and he was able to guess the use of various city fortifications. After simulating the offensive and defensive battles in his mind, Yi Yu immediately sweated on his back - how should I fight with this thing? It's purely a corpse to fill in..

Therefore, Liu Yao had good words, and then tempted him to be a pioneer and attack Dali, but Yiyu immediately refused - not going!