Wuchang City, Yingzhou, a city that was repeatedly tossed by the Zhou army, finally failed to escape from the clutches of the other party and lost again. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The general, Bazhou Thorn Shi, and Gongyu Wenwen of the State of Yi are now patrolling the head of Wuchang City, and he came back a little late, and the big gap in the east wall has just been filled.

The gunpowder that had been saved for a year was half used in the attack on Wuchang, and the tunnel was dug under the city wall, and several coffins filled with gunpowder were piled under the city wall through the tunnel, and then the fire was ignited to make a "fortune".

In the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the Qing Dynasty, the Taiping army, which lacked artillery, used this means to attack the city, which was extremely sharp, provided that the level of digging tunnels was high.

The tunnel-digging team trained by Yuwenwen was very powerful, and successfully blasted out a breach in the east wall of Wuchang, and Chen Jun smashed it with a trebuchet and Zhou Jun's trebuchet, but he didn't expect that there would be a big killer, so it was natural for the Zhou army to break the city on three days.

Hao Daring, who stayed in Wuchang, followed Yu Wenwen and introduced the relevant situation: "Envoy, the city wall has been repaired, and six new forts have been built outside the city to protect the city. ”

"When the enemy besieges the city, it will be too late, there are no reinforcements outside, how long can the fighting spirit of the defenders last?" Yuwenwen looked outside the city and said, "But Wuchang is different, there is a side of the river, as long as the navy is there, reinforcements will not be cut off." ”

"You're right, that's how Yanji survived."

"It was Bazhou that supported it, and now it is going to support a Wuchang, do you have any confidence?"

"Yes!"

The generals replied that most of them were generals of the Hulin Army, and there were also generals of the government soldiers who were about to change their defenses.

"It's not enough to have a heart, you have to have a deeper trench and a moat!"

Originally, the Wuchang defenders of Chen State dug trenches and moats, but the Zhou army dug deeper tunnels, and now they have changed their offensive and defensive positions, and the original trenches and moats have been deepened.

Chen Jun was widened when the new Wuchang city wall was built, which was a countermeasure against the trebuchet, and the actual effect was very good, the Zhou army attacked Wuchang this time, and smashed the wall with a trebuchet to throw stones, and then could not smash the city wall like the attack on Xiangyang.

Can only smash out a ramp, the Zhou army can use this to climb the city, but it has to be filled with human lives, if it is not for the use of thunder this time, relying on the huge power to blow up the city wall, the casualties of the Zhou army under the strong attack will not be small.

Yu Wenwen walked around the city wall, leaving the generals busy with their own affairs, and then he went to the pier in the north of the city to check the progress of the construction.

The natural port of Wuchang is Fankou, which is more suitable for berthing ships, just like Bakou is to Xiyang, but based on the needs of assisting in the defense of Wuchang, a new wharf is built directly in the north of the city, so that when the enemy besieges the city, the reinforcements on the north bank can directly take the boat to the south to reinforce.

The water flow here is relatively turbulent, and the construction needs to consume a lot of stones, not only that, but it also costs a lot of money to repair the city defense of Wuchang, but in order to defend Wuchang, Yuwenwen can only grit his teeth and hold on.

According to the plan discussed with everyone before, they should not have occupied Wuchang so quickly, and they had to repeatedly bleed Chen Jun like the year before last, and torture them for another year or two before they started, so that Chen Jun's counterattack would be much smaller.

But now the form is different, Chen Guo captured Huainan Prefecture, concentrated his forces to keep this hard-won territory, and the corresponding support for Yingzhou was much smaller, and the Huangzhou army of Zhou State had defeated Chen Guojiangzhou's naval army, and it was impossible for Chen's army to reinforce Yingzhou on a large scale.

Taking advantage of your illness to kill you, Yuwenwen was not in Bazhou when the war broke out, and this time the use of troops was the result of the discussion between Governor Shi Renchong, Sima Yangji of the Prefecture and the Hulin Army and the generals of the government soldiers, and Yuwenwen felt good about this.

His weak officer corps was finally able to take his own ideas according to the actual situation!

"When will Yang Sima withdraw it?"

"Envoy, now it's about to spring ploughing, and when the Xiakou defenders miss the farming in the tuntian, Yang Sima will withdraw."

"Such a scourge to Yingzhou, I think the people of Chen Guo have to arrange their own officials again, I don't know what kind of death this time this time this official will be?"

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The outskirts of Xiakou Castle.

Bazhou Sima Yangji used a clairvoyant mirror to observe the Chen army's stronghold outside Xiakou City, the two sides have been fighting fiercely around Xiakou for several months, and now the Zhou army finally arrived outside Xiakou City, but it is already exhausted and unable to really attack the city.

The strongholds on the periphery of Xiakou have not been cleaned up, and there is no way to force them into the city, so they can't dig tunnels to reach the root of the wall, and come to "raise the coffin and make a fortune".

The Zhou army had the advantage in the field but the troops were insufficient to attack the city, with 2,000 state soldiers, 2,000 Hulin troops, and 2,000 government soldiers, not counting the young and strong people who transported grain, adding up to 6,000 people, it seems that there are many soldiers, but the Chen army has more soldiers.

If it weren't for the strong field combat ability of the Zhou army, they would be the ones who are surrounded now.

"More than 20,000 soldiers, but they don't dare to fight in Xiakou City, it's not like words!"

Yitong General Liang Dingxing scolded with a smile, the newly trained government soldiers performed well, and he was quite happy as a government general, and followed the old guys to partner with the soldiers outside Xiakou City, and the previous worries dissipated.

"They can't be defeated, so they don't dare to take risks, anyway, they know that our army is not capable of attacking the city, and they probably want to spend it until the rainy season, so that our army can only withdraw."

Don't analyze Fifth Brother Chen, the defenders of Xiakou of Chen Guo are uneven, there are soldiers who can fight, but more of them are people who have been requisitioned, these people are reluctant to defend the city, and it is definitely not possible to go out of the city to fight in the field.

"You don't have to wait for the rain, these fields are almost destroyed, and when the farming time is over, you will leave, and Chen Jun has no harvest this year!"

"20,000 defenders, not counting the reinforced naval army, the food consumption is 40,000 Hu a month, and it is nearly 500,000 Hu a year, plus those young and strong people who transport grain and grass also have to eat, no less than 600,000 Hu in a year, and if they continue to toss, Chen Guo's Bazhou can hold up."

"Chen Guo's Bazhou can't hold up, but my Da Zhou's Bazhou can!"

Everyone discussed the military situation, and several people came over, the first one was the Kaifu general Shi Wansui, and the other generals followed.

"Shi Kaifu, how are Chen Guo's reinforcements?"

"The defeat was made, the crossbowmen fired one round, the ambushes poured out from both sides, and then the cavalry broke up as soon as they charged."

"In this way, Chen Jun is afraid that he will be more and more reluctant to fight."

"It's okay if you don't fight, Wuchang has more time to repair the city defenses."

"Are the crossbowmen adapted?"

Listening to Yang Ji's question, a thin general stepped forward to answer when he heard this, but his official words were a little stumbling: "Sima, we have no problem." ”

claimed that there was no use of the "last general", but everyone did not care, this time the troops, the newly trained crossbow soldiers of 1,000 people also accompanied them, they belonged to the state soldier sequence, but they were composed of naturalized mountain people.

The training intensity is the same as that of the state soldiers, and the training of crossbows is specially strengthened, not expecting to be effective in melee combat in the short term, that is, to be used as crossbowmen to shoot people and horses.

"Very good, Chen Jun has lost his courage, but you must take more precautions and beware of Chen Jun's night attack."

"The last general obeys!"

The commander of the Zhou army that entered Xiakou was Sima Yang Ji of Bazhou, if it was common sense, he had no right to command the government soldiers, and generals such as Shi Wansui, the general of the opening of the palace, did not need to pay attention to this state Sima with a lower rank than himself, but it was an exception in Bazhou.

Their common superiors are the general, the Bazhou Thorn History, the Duke of Yiguo Yu Wenwen, the general commands the government soldiers, the Bazhou Thorn Shi commands the state soldiers, and Yu Wenwen himself commands the Hulin Army, so the commander he designated is Yang Ji, then everyone has to obey the order.

"Everyone knows that Yuwen Envoy Jun has returned to Bazhou, and the Envoy Jun has already sent an order, everything is according to the plan agreed upon by us before, the farmland around Xiakou must be destroyed, and if Chen Jun dares to come out, it will be eaten!"

"Order, arrange people to beat gongs and drums at night, and continue to toss the defenders of Xiakou!" (To be continued.) )