Although the Southern Xiongnu have moved into the interior for more than 100 years, they still retain a lot of grassland customs, they choose the abundant water and grass in Yong, and, Si, Hebei and other prefectures, half ploughing and half pasture, although most of the nobles wear Han clothes, speak Chinese, read Chinese books, and go to and from Xiongcheng Dayi, but after returning to their hometown, they still build tents to live, migrate from time to time, and really have not built a few cities. Although it is far easier to destroy than to build, if you have never built a city with your own hands, your understanding of the structure of the city is very shallow, and although it has been several generations in China, you are still not good at attacking fortifications.

Therefore, in the face of the fortified city, the Hu army still only had the siege and the two axes attached to the ants, and all the rushing cars, ladders, giant crossbows, and cannons were indebted to the city - there was neither technology nor materials.

This time, Liu Xun led the army to attack Chenggao, and the means were not abundant. Although Liu Xun is a general of the Hu Han Dynasty, he has fought many vicious battles, and the trapping of cities and forts has reached double digits, but most of them have relied on the strength of the crowd, regardless of the damage, and fought hard. Although he had read some Chinese classics, he was also influenced by the times, focusing only on the Confucian classics, as well as the historical biography of Ban and Ma. Not to mention the few military strategies at that time, most of them were broad theories, and even the gods of the soldiers, and few of them involved offensive and defensive strategies.

Pei Gai is different, he has read a lot of later art of war, and in his spare time, he will write down some sentences that he still remembers, so as to teach his generals. As for the strategy of attack and defense, there are two famous works in ancient China that are very well discussed, one is "Mozi City Guarding Chapter", and the other is "De'an Defending the City", the former is clumsy, difficult to understand, and even more difficult to remember, fortunately, Pei Gai collected a few volumes of fragments in Shile camp and in Jiankang; The latter is easy to understand, and although he can't memorize it, he still remembers the general content.

So today, one with theoretical knowledge and lack of practical experience - Pei should be like this, and so is Lu Yan - and the other has practical experience but not enough knowledge, and they collided inside and outside Chenggao.

The Hu army under the city had just marched forward with drums, and Lu Yan ordered the auxiliary soldiers at the head of the city to release arrows. Archery is a technical job, not just trained for a winter Xuzhou auxiliaries can play - unless some of them are like Lu He, originally from Orion - plus to show the enemy weak, of course, it is impossible to line up thousands of archers, arrows are like a dense rain, so although the order is given, there are very few people who open their bows, and even fewer of them will not pose any real threat to the Hu soldiers.

Moreover, the Hu army came out of the Seven Star Fort, and it was only about a hundred steps away from the city wall, let go of the legs and feet, and it could be rushed to it in an instant, and the Xuzhou soldiers at the head of the city who were inexperienced and skilled were not up to par, at most it was enough to launch two rounds.

Under the command of Liu Xun, the Hu army marched forward, and soon set up the long ladder prepared in advance on the moat and passed over the moat; Another three or four hundred men, under the cover of shield bearers, began to fire arrows at the head of the city to suppress the attacks from the city. Hu soldiers who stepped on ladders to cross the trench, many of them fell into the water - Tai half of them accidentally slipped down to avoid arrows, and there were very few people who fell by arrows - just in the dry season, the water in the trench was not as deep as the waist, and they could not hurt or drown people, and those Hu soldiers wiped the cold water on their faces and were soon able to climb out.

Pei Gai sat on the Hu bed, his vision was obscured by the big shield in front of him, and he could only see the scattered arrows in the air, and the movement of soldiers within a dozen steps in the front. Fortunately, Lu Yan is a sensible person, and he sent a soldier who can speak well to report the battle situation to Pei Gai from time to time - "The thief has crossed the trench...... The thief has erected a wooden ladder...... The thief has climbed the ladder ......"

Pei Gai was still some distance away from the battlefield, quite light and light, as a result, people often come to report the battle situation, although it has not yet reached the stage of the handover of the white blade, he can't help but be a little nervous when he listens, the bamboo cane held in his right hand unconsciously but rhythmically repeatedly knocks on the ground, "Bu Bu" sounds.

The defenders attempted to push the attacker's ladder away with a wooden fork, but the odds of success were ridiculously low. This is the timing is not easy to grasp, only when the long ladder will lean but not leaning on the city wall, it is convenient to unload the force obliquely, and once the long ladder hits the city wall, there must be several Hu soldiers firmly resisted below, and then there are Hu soldiers with long knives, climbing up, it is not waiting for three or five people to push away - more people, that must also be able to squeeze to one place. Second, the Hu people cut corners too much, and after many long ladders were erected on the city wall, the first edge was still a few feet away from the city wall...... There's no way to push it!

Once the long ladder was erected and the Hu soldiers began to climb with ants, the archers were useless, and could only attack with wood and stones, but unfortunately it was too difficult to get accurate. Lu Yan burned the pot on the city tower in advance, boiled several large pots of boiling water, and ordered someone to pour it on the ladder in a clay pot, but there were few of the same - because if it didn't show its head, it would definitely not be accurate, and if the boiling water didn't hit the head, it would have no effect at all on Hu Bing's leather jacket; And if you try to show your head, you will be wounded by arrows from the city.

Liu Xun brought this time is really the elite of the Huns, and his archery skills are very good, only fifty or sixty steps away from the city, even if he is holding a horse bow in his hand, he can also shoot without missing it, and he is often hit by the head and face.

Pei Gai was in the city, and began to listen to the sound of orders and shouts, and after a while, suddenly a scream sounded not far away, and then one after another, endlessly, his heart couldn't help but rise. It happened that the soldier came to report on the battle, and Pei Gai said casually: "If it is not easy to get accurate when splashing water, why not throw the can, do I still lack these pottery tools?!" ”

The soldiers went back to pass the word to Lu Yan, and Lu Yan tried to use it...... It doesn't work at all. Throwing a clay pot is no different from rolling wood and stones, if you don't dare to show your head, it is also not easy to hit, and even if you hit the wooden ladder or even the person, it may not be broken, even if it is broken, after all, the weather is cold, and the boiling water splashes out again, and it has become warm water......

In fact, there are many ways to defend the city, such as pouring molten iron or "golden juice" under the city. However, this was an era of poor materials, and even if Pei Gai mastered the iron ore in Pengcheng, there was not so much surplus to pour into the city. As for the "golden juice", it is made by boiling feces and urine, and it is said that the skin of the person in it will ulcerate and he will be poisoned to death...... Unfortunately, it was not an immediate death, if the enemy had already landed or even broken the city, even if he died miserably after three or five days, what good would it be to defend the city? On the premise that the effect is not obvious, it makes the whole city stink, what a bother.

After all, Pei should be a feint, not really forced to a dead end, there should be no need to make this move.

Wood and stone and boiling water could not have a good effect, so there was not much time, and Hu soldiers jumped up to the city. The nearby Xuzhou auxiliaries raised their spears and stabbed them in the chest. However, after all, they lacked training in fighting skills, and because they were brave and timid, the speed of spears was different, and since they had divided the order, they were seized by Hu Bing, holding the spear with his left hand, and taking the knife from his mouth with his right hand, and blocking the rest of the handles. As soon as the spear was swinged, it was bound to be delayed to think about the frontal target, and Hu Bing took the opportunity to rush closer, and with a single sword, he opened the chest of an auxiliary soldier, and blood shot out like a fountain......

The death of a companion next to him by an arrow and death from a knife is very different from the sensory stimulation caused to people, when even a few people turned pale and staggered back. Fortunately, although this army is an auxiliary soldier and has little experience in battle formations, from the platoon commander and above to the generals, they are all from the regular army, so they angrily scolded the cowardly, and rushed forward with swords to block the Hu soldiers.

Similar scenes were played out in many parts of the city wall at about the same time, and there happened to be one in front of Pei Gai. He involuntarily leaned forward slightly, his teeth clenched, and his eyes glared angrily. I saw a Hu soldier ascend first, with a small shield tied to his left arm, and a sharp long knife in his right hand, and with a swipe of his wrist, two Xuzhou soldiers fell down with a scream, although they were six or seven steps away, there were still scattered blood splashed on Pei Gai's face.

Pei should wipe his face, and when he looked down at his hand, he was a few shades of red, which was creepy.

Wen Lang hurriedly stepped forward, blocked in front of Pei Gai, and said, "The governor should go down to the city!" Pei Gai stood up suddenly, and grabbed Wen Lang away: "If you retreat, I will not retreat!" ”

In the blink of an eye, two more Hu soldiers then climbed the city wall. When Hu Bing heard the voice here, he squinted his eyes and saw six or seven big shields guarding a person, knowing that he must be an enemy general, he shouted violently at the moment, and his body was short, and he jumped out of several spears, and rushed towards Pei Gai with a knife. Wen Lang pulled out his sword from the sheath, and was about to put it on the right side, when he heard the sound of the golden wind next to his ear, and a feather arrow hit the left ear of the Hu soldier, and its momentum was unfading, and it penetrated through the right ear.

The Hu soldier fell sideways, and the long knife in his hand fell right at Wen Lang's feet.

Immediately, I heard a loud shout: "The master is here!" Zhen casually held a big bow in his hand and led six or seven healthy soldiers to rush over like a wind. He nodded at Pei Gai: "Why is the governor in the way here?" Let's go down to town. Then he abandoned his bow, bent down and picked up the long knife that the soldier had dropped: "This knife is unsharp." "Turn around and you're in the warband.

These soldiers led by Zhen Sui were really powerful, or they made long knives, dancing like wheels, or making short spears, and so on, like beetles, and stabbed to death the three Hu soldiers who had climbed the city one after another in the blink of an eye. Seeing that he was invincible, the fourth Hu soldier turned around, held his head and jumped from the city.

Pei Gaixin said: You deserve it, you can't be killed! But then I thought that this city wall was only more than two feet above the ground, and there was no concrete floor below, but land...... Damn, if there is a city of five zhang, the enemy will be a hundred times more difficult to attack!

He traveled to this life, and a big regret for the city guards is that the city walls are generally shorter than he thinks, even if Jiankang City, and Luoyang City in the original soul memory, are only more than three zhang (8 meters). It is estimated that because the technology is still too backward, and most of them are rammed earth walls, and there are very few brick walls - even the old capital Luoyang is not four bread bricks - so it is impossible to build too high......

Seeing that Zhen Sui led his troops to force back the Hu pawns who had landed in the city, he immediately picked up a corpse of Hu soldiers, covered it in front of him, and took advantage of the situation to glance at the city. With a "pounce", an arrow shot from under the city, hitting the enemy corpse, Zhen Sui shook his wrist, and threw the enemy corpse down, and then picked up a stone the size of a grinding plate with both hands, and rolled down from the city according to his memory.

Pei should neither see nor hear clearly, but looking at Zhen Sui's expression, he should have smashed the wooden ladder. The guy then looked up to the sky and laughed, and then led his men to roar away.

It's just that it was less than half an hour later, but Zhen Sui ran back again, because it is said that Hu Jun put three long ladders in this position at the same time. Guessing it, probably the guy who jumped down really didn't die, and reported that there was an enemy general in the city in this position, and it seemed to be an important role......

Pei Caixin said that I am good at strange skills...... Anyway, I'm also a big boss, and it's reasonable that Hu Bing is coming at me. But in this way, will it hinder Lu Yan's command? That's it, that's it, I'm still listening to people's advice, eat enough, let's go down to the city first, anyway, after looking at it for a long time, I must have accumulated a lot of experience points.

Although Pei Gai went down the city wall, Lu Yan still sent people to spread the news of the city from time to time. This battle lasted from early morning to noon, and in nearly two hours, Hu Bing climbed the city wall no less than thirty or forty times, and at most more than a dozen people poured up at one time, and it was not easy to be surrounded and killed. After the war, there were more than 200 corpses in the city, and seventy percent of them were Xuzhou auxiliaries - it is estimated that even if the Hu soldiers who were killed under the city are added, the deaths are less than those in Xuzhou.

Hu Bing is really brave, even if he is compared to the Xuzhou soldiers, he is even better. If Pei Gaizhen only had these three or four thousand auxiliaries in hand, Cheng Gao would not be able to hold it sooner or later!

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