It is said that since Qiu Yi's expedition, there have been four lower cities, but this is the first real siege. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Because of the lack of time, it is not allowed to summon the Ling army to go down to the city slowly, and there is only one way to attack it.

The first task of siege warfare was to fill in the wide moat. Most of the moats away from the river are waterless or wastewater, and the moats near the river are mostly living water. The city is named because it is located in the sun of the sea bream, which in turn is named after the abundance of sea bream. Therefore, the moat of this sea bream city is living water, and to fill in this living water moat, the first thing to do is to cut off the source.

Cut off the source of the moat, and then talk about landfilling. The width and height of the moat are about the same as the width and height of the city wall, four zhang wide and three zhang high. For the rammed earth on which the walls were built was taken from the moat. The walls were built, and the moat was repaired at the same time. If you want to fill it, you need to take the soil from a distance and send it to the moat.

In the process of landfilling, it is more difficult to face the bow and arrow shooting of the thieves at the head of the city at any time. But no matter how difficult it is, you have to do it, otherwise ten times the thief army will return from Gepi, which is not a great thing.

The matter of landfilling was handed over to the Minzhuang and the servant army to carry out, and the Minzhuang who joined the army from Zhaoling had already turned into a soldier when he was reorganizing the army, and became a member of the regular soldiers of the Zhaoling Army, but he also escaped this difficult thing. But in the ensuing battle of the ant-attached city, there was no escape. Even if it is a regular soldier, it is more or less necessary to go to the city to fight.

The thieves in Haiyang were weak, and the Zhaoling army adopted the method of besieging the three ques and missing one, attacking the east, south and west, leaving the north gate alone. The siege battle was entrusted to the front, left, and right armies, and the central and rear armies were prepared to deal with the sudden attack. Qiu Yi, as the Sima of the left army, was assigned to attack the western city wall. There are 400 people under Qiu Yi's command of 1,200 people, that is to say, a total of 1,300 people under Qiu Yi's command obey orders at this time.

Qiu Yi remembered that the moat on the west side, which was more than 700 steps long, could not be filled in all directions, it needed to start from one point, and then expand in turn, only a hundred steps of distance was filled. Qiu Yi was born in a family of businessmen such as Zhu and Qiu Er, and he was involved in planning. This distance is so large that it takes nearly 20,000 square meters of earthwork, and according to the calculation of ten square meters of earthwork in one day, it takes 2,000 people to take the earthwork together at the same time.

Qiu Yi shook his head, no, no, there are not so many people. It is necessary to take the earth according to the method of 400 men, 500 transport, 100 men with shields for protection, and 200 men with bows and arrows to suppress it. So the earthwork that 400 people can dig in a day can only fill about 20 steps of the moat, which is too small to be used.

Qiu Yi shouted: "Cheng Qi Chejing, the two of you will lead the army to the baggage camp to get 400 sets of farm tools and 5,000 sacks to wait for your order." Lu Ping, you also go with you, and then go and get 6,000 long arrows back for backup. ”

"Order." The three of them ordered three hundred soldiers and rushed to the baggage camp. After a short time, the three of them led the army back, but only half of the material they brought back. Cheng Qi scolded and shouted all the way: "The hateful old dog Qiu Qian, as the military commander of the baggage battalion, is so inadequately prepared for military supplies. Knowing that we were here to attack the city, we only prepared half of the items. Just such a little thing, how can we have time to capture the city of Breamyang. ”

Qiu Yi frowned, Qiu Zhen was not fully prepared, but he didn't expect this. However, the materials needed for each operation are massive, and it is understandable that the baggage battalion does not have enough time and preparations. So he asked, "What are the incomplete supplies?" ”

Lu Pingyu said: "The main reason is that the stock of sacks and arrows is insufficient, only half, and the farm tools are complete. The upper and lower levels of the baggage camp are now preparing the simple ladder for tomorrow, and there is no time to prepare anything else. What is lacking, the baggage camp tells us to find a way by ourselves. ”

Qiu Yi nodded and said: "Now is the time when the grass and trees grow in April, and there is a lot of grass in the four wilds, so you can divide a hundred people to cut the grass and weave straw bags for soil." As for the arrows, each archer used to have a pot of light arrows, but now he has three thousand arrows, and each archer has forty arrows, which is not much worse than the battle. Get ready to go. ”

Qiu Yi led 1,300 people to the west side of the city of Snapyang, looked at the frightened thieves at the head of the city, pointed to the small earthen bag 200 steps away from the city, and said: "Qian Junhou, General Huang Tun, and General Yang Tun will lead 400 people to take soil nearby; Cheng Qi, Che Jing, Deng Dang, and Du Lei led 400 people to transport earthen bags; Qiu Gong led 100 shield-bearers to prepare for protection; Lu Ping led a hundred archers to prepare to suppress the city, and Gao Qu and another hundred archers were ready to replace at any time; Wang Dang led 100 people to cut grass and weave straw bags. All generals, set off quickly. ”

"Order." 1,300 people immediately took action, and the generals did their own duties, busy but not chaotic, and acted in an orderly manner. The thieves at the head of the city did not have long-range weapons such as crossbows and rhubarb crossbows, so they could only watch until someone rushed to the city with dirt bags on their backs, and then the thieves sent bows and arrows to stop them.

Unfortunately, Qiu Gong led a hundred shield-wielding men under the city to keep an eye on the arrows at the head of the city to protect the bodies of the transport soldiers, and Lu Ping even led a hundred archers to force a distance of fifty paces, and shot at the thief archers at the head of the city to disperse the arrows shot at the transport soldiers.

There were also as many as 200 thieves and archers in the city, but the arrows shot were sparse and sparse, either because the strength was not enough, and it was difficult to cause damage to the officials and troops under the city, but they were killed by the hundred archers led by Lu Ping in three waves of shots, and the morale of the thieves was suddenly greatly depressed. It wasn't until one of the thieves killed several people with his sword and stepped forward to take command that the thief archers shot fierce and poisonous arrows.

For a while, the arrows at the head of the city rained down, and the arrows were like flying locusts, Qiu Yi saw that there were more than a dozen archers under his command with arrows, and the other archers were inevitably a little timid, and the shooting was not as fast and accurate as before, and it also involved several transport soldiers who were shot by arrows. Qiu Yi was furious, slapped his horse and galloped to Yu Hua's side, borrowed Yu Hua's bow, and then flew forward, and saw the thief who wiped his forehead with a yellow scarf at the head of the city, which shot an arrow.

The thief saw that he was anxious to hide in the battlements, and he didn't want Qiu Yi to anticipate his actions, so he immediately fell down the city with a scream, and fell into the moat and splashed a large string of water.

The thieves and archers in the city were terrified, and their morale fell again, Qiu Yi waved his hand, and the hundred archers led by Gao District immediately stepped forward to replace them, raising their bows and shooting towards the city, while Lu Ping led his archers to temporarily retreat with the wounded. When Lu Parallel came to Qiu Yi's side, he persuaded: "Jun Sima, you are standing too close, the thieves in the city are condescending, and it is better than shooting twenty steps from the flat ground, just enough to shoot here." ”

Qiu Yi shook his hand and said: "Ninety steps is already far away, thieves can't shoot so far, see if I stop and kill a few more thieves, so that no one in the city dares to shoot a bow and arrow." ”

After dismounting and walking nearly ten steps, Lu Ping had no choice but to take an iron-clad wooden shield to protect Qiu Yi. Qiu Yi saw the old man, the woman and the urchin at the head of the city shaking their heads again and again, and he couldn't tell who was the thief at all, but he could only see who was shouting and shooting an arrow.

Several times when I saw that the other party was an old man, a woman, and a naughty child, I couldn't help but stop, and it was difficult to shoot the arrow. But in the end, when he thought that although the Han dynasty was in decline, it had not yet been completely defeated, and he understood that the Yellow Turban Rebellion would not be a big deal. The Yellow Turban Rebellion finally dragged tens of millions of people in the world into the war. It is better to endure the unbearable for this moment and let tens of millions of people return to stability.

Although Qiu Yi hardened his heart, Lu Ping, who was holding the shield, kept muttering to himself, "How can such a young child become a thief?" Jun Sima, look at that woman, she dares to shoot a bow and arrows even if she is weak? There is also the old man, who is afraid that he has great-grandchildren, but he can't live at home for a long time, and he has to carry heavy arrows everywhere. Poor, pitiful. ”

Qiu Yi said angrily: "What are you muttering about? The Yellow Turban Moth Thief has always liked to coerce the good people as thieves, like a snow ball that is getting bigger and bigger, if you don't stop it in advance, I'm afraid that the whole world will be swept over, and then even you and I will be helpless. Just look at the three counties of Qisi, Yuanlu and Fubo, there are 50,000 or 60,000 thieves in each county, who will do the sowing and harvest this year? Although the thieves are peaceful, the casualties of the people in each county are more than 30 percent, and I am afraid that there will be another catastrophe and famine at the end of this year. Although there were disasters and famines in previous years, there were also a lot of benevolent and heroic relief. This year, the chiefs of the three counties have been killed, and if the famine resumes, they will all starve to death. ”

Lu Ping didn't dare to contradict it, but said: "The rich chief? It would be good if one of the three heroes could be benevolent. There are no heroes in the three counties, and no one can deceive the people of the three counties anymore. If the new county magistrate is not bad, he may be able to live a few more years. ”

Qiu Yi shouted: "Is there a hero in the world who can kill everything? As long as there is knowledge and fate, ordinary people can become heroes after one or two lifetimes, such as Zhu and Qiu Er. The prosperity and decline of the wealthy clan have their own laws, and they can be solved by killing a word. As you said, if there is no class in the army, who is willing to work hard, everyone is the same anyway, and it doesn't matter if you are a gangster. ”

Lu Ping sighed and was silent, so he had to honestly raise his shield for protection. After a battle of bows and arrows, more than 2,000 arrows were shot in the city, but only more than 20 people were shot. More than 3,000 arrows were shot at the city, but hundreds of thieves were killed. The thieves no longer dared to shoot arrows, and could only watch as the officers and soldiers were busy filling in the moat.

A day had passed, and the moat had been filled in thirty paces away, far more than Qiu Yi had calculated at the beginning, and it was considered wide among the other two sides of the moat. Next is tomorrow's ant annex to the city to fight, hoping to be more relaxed than today.

Early the next morning, the rear soldiers, who had been guarding outside all night to prevent the thieves in the city from destroying or escaping unharmed, were finally able to return to the camp to rest. The soldiers on the left received a ladder cart and twenty simple ladders that had been processed overnight in the baggage battalion, and came to the west of the city of Snapyang City again.

After a night of terror and self-fright, the thieves at the head of the city were even more depressed than yesterday. Qiu Yi secretly rejoiced, in this way, the casualties of both the thieves and us will be greatly reduced, and without the suppression of the thieves and the Taiping cultists, the thieves and soldiers can also return to their hometowns and cultivate smoothly, but they still need the new county magistrate of the court to sympathize with the peasants.