On the thirteenth day when the Hu Han and Void Coalition troops arrived at Dali City, it was also the eighth day when the siege officially began, and before Liu Yao could make any moves, Yi Yu sent someone over to remind him: You didn't attack yesterday, so you have to take your turn today, don't send it to me.

Liu Yao almost wanted to pull out his knife and cut the messenger in two, but finally suppressed his anger and ordered the soldiers to continue to fill the trench. Anyway, it's like this, and I'm not afraid of being flooded again - after all, the Beiluo water can't be completely flooded - let's expand the front of the battlefield that can be attacked first.

After many days of risking death to fill in the trenches, Hu Jun also summed up some experience, and although the flying stones in the sky looked quite terrifying, but the accuracy was too poor, and the speed was slow, as long as they were cautious enough, they could still avoid the past - death, death, naturally they were used to it, so this day the trench was filled with good results, and it was filled in the north of the city more than four zhang wide. For now, hundreds of people die every day, Liu Yao can afford it for the time being, and I believe that as long as the sheep and horse wall is breached, the battle loss ratio can naturally be reduced.

Who would have thought that on the evening of the same day, Liu Yue's camp in the east of the city was inexplicably attacked......

Tao Kan Tao Shixing is a famous general in the south of the Yangtze River, winning a decisive victory in the plains, and even the cavalry is vertically and horizontally, he may not be good at it; However, his ability to block roads, set up cards along rivers, and even water warfare, mountain warfare, and swamp warfare is rare in the world. When Tao Kan used to fight in the south, there were dense river forks everywhere, flooding from time to time, and the weather was often rainy, even flat land was likely to turn into a swamp in an instant, so he was quite experienced in how to break through the mud.

In addition, Pei Gai also helped to come up with ideas, after all, he was well-informed, which could make up for some of Tao Kan's shortcomings.

So on the evening of this day, Tao Kan ordered Mo Huaizhong, the left deputy governor of Pengshan Camp, to sneak out of the east gate, and used the pre-prepared wooden rafts as a boat, along the muddy ground, and quietly slid to Liu Yue's camp. Liu Yueyi thought that the mud outside the east gate was close to a foot, and if he stepped on it, he would be trapped, and he couldn't walk, and the Jin people would definitely not be able to get out, so he neglected his vigilance; The second had just moved to the camp, and everything was unprepared, so he was caught off guard and was killed by Mo Huaizhong until he was in front of the Chinese army's big tent.

This Mo Huaizhong was originally a native of Shi'an County, Guangzhou, among the generals in Xuzhou, he was born in the south, but when he was a teenager, he was sold to Jiangzhou as a slave, because he was abused, his master fled, all the way north, mixed into the ranks of the refugees, and then recruited by Pei Gai. Theoretically, Pei ordered Li Ju (Li Maohong) to recruit the first batch of soldiers in Jiangbei, all of whom had to have families, Mo Huaizhong was not qualified at all, he felt that he could have something to eat if he was a soldier, so he coerced an old couple from Jingbei to recognize him as his son and squeezed in.

At that time, he registered his name, but he didn't dare to report his real name, so he followed the old couple's surname Mo, claiming that his name was "Huaizhong" - a loyal name, Shangguan might like it.

Later, because of his hard training, he was able to stand out, and when he joined the "Pengshan Battalion" governor Lu Yan, when the army was greatly expanded, Mo Huaizhong successfully became the left deputy governor - anyway, no matter where he was born in the Xuzhou army, similar characters grabbed a lot and were not conspicuous.

For once the moat is filled, the east of the city may be flooded, Tao Kan has long foreseen, and originally decided to use wooden rafts to cut mud and go out of the city to make a surprise attack. However, after asking all the generals, who has the ability to fight this kind of battle, Zhen Suiben is ready to ask for help, but he has no experience, which makes him so angry that he can't do it. In the end, Mo Huaizhong stood up and said that he was born in the south and was used to walking on dirt roads, although he had not rowed a wooden raft in the mud, he had the experience of supporting a boat, and he thought that the two could be connected. Tao Kandang even handed this heavy responsibility to his shoulders.

Among the four major battalions in Xuzhou, the "Pengshan Battalion" is ranked the lowest, and it is only a number of "wind forests and volcanoes", and there is no difference between superior and inferior. However, Liu Yetang, the "Lifeng Battalion", has been with his ancestors for a long time, and has the most experience in combat, and often has to shoulder heavy responsibilities; "Fire Battalion" Zhen Sui is best to fight and grab merit, and Lu Yan, the governor of the "Pengshan Battalion", is not easy to fight with him; Originally, Gaole's "Martial Arts Battalion" was at the bottom, but in the battle of Yin Gou Water, it was Lu He and Xiong Yizhi who made the first contribution, and since then Pei should have added to his blue eyes...... "Pengshan Battalion" has almost been buried.

Mo Huaizhong once led the "Pengshan Left Battalion" to protect the grain route, and Lu Yan had great hopes for him, but unfortunately the task was successfully completed, but he failed to catch Chen Chuan...... Therefore, this time in the battle, Lu Yan's words were very serious - "Whether I'Pengshan' can be proud of the battalions depends on Yu Qing, and Qing Qi is reluctant." If you fail and return, I will play the role of Governor and remove you from the post of Deputy Governor! ”

Mo Huaizhong said that you can rest assured - "If the enemy army is prepared, it is Tao Sima who does not know the enemy, and he is not in me; If the enemy is unprepared, he will take the head of the general and return to offer the governor! ”

In the middle of the night that night, when the night watchmen were about to change their guards, and when they were most tired, Mo Huaizhong, with the assistance of Lu Yan, selected nearly 1,000 soldiers from the three battalions of "Pengshan" who did not have night blindness - or had been cured - and had commendable courage.

In fact, whether on the water or on the mud, it is better to take the bamboo row, but it is a pity that there is less bamboo in the Guanzhong, so it is necessary to use wood, Pei should be based on the experience obtained when he traveled in his previous life, and ordered the branch bent to tie in front of the row, and raise it upward, which can reduce the resistance. They didn't have to put down the drawbridge, they only had to put down the wooden rafts, and they could erect the trenches themselves.

There are two soldiers in each row, holding long tips, which are used to support the rowing - this is the same principle as the water drains used in many places in Lingnan. The east of Dali City was not only dug up a lot of soil by Pei Cai, but also almost all the stones - which can be used for stones and artillery stones - so there is almost no obstacle, and the wooden rafts rarely "break down" halfway.

It's just that this thing is different from walking at night after all, it is difficult to pull each other, before and after, once the speed is not equal, bumping into or even entangled, then there is nothing to be done, so when the official road, the Jin army still lit the torch lighting. Naturally, it could be seen in the camp of the Hu army on the opposite side, but one of the sentries was tired and slack, and the other did not expect the enemy to come so quickly—unless on horseback, but it was impossible to walk on a dirt road on horseback—so when the news reached Liu Yue's army, he had not had time to form a defensive team, and the Jin army had already killed in front of the camp.

Mo Huaizhong raised his sword and roared, and the Jin soldiers shouted in unison, then abandoned the platoon and went to the ground, and then used a spear to pick open the antlers and fences, and shot the sentries with bows and arrows.

Organisation is extremely important for combat, not combat; Strong organization, strong battle, although thousands of people can be defeated; If it is not organized, even the army of millions can collapse in an instant. Because Hu Jun did not expect that the Jin people would come out of the city to attack, most of them took off their armor and slept in peace, and the number of guards was very small—and they often found a backlit corner to doze off—and it was difficult to organize in a hurry, so the Jin army saw people kill people, saw the tent and burned the tent, and killed Liu Yue's Chinese army.

Fortunately, Liu Yue is also a general of Hu Hanxiao, his reaction is very fast, and his command is also remarkable, he knows that the general trend is irreversible, and he doesn't care about the battalions, but he just tries to gather the soldiers who got up in a hurry to defend the big tent of the Chinese army. Mo Huaizhong charged forward, bent on cutting off the general's head, but he cut down one layer after another, killing all over his body with blood, and was wounded in many places, but he was always twenty steps away from the big tent, and it was difficult to advance an inch. Seeing that more and more Hu soldiers gathered around to hear the sound of drums, he knew that if he delayed any longer, he might not be able to retreat with his whole body......

After all, he only brought out less than a thousand people, and Liu Yue's generals were nearly ten times that of him, even if half of them were scattered, the remaining half were not so easy to kill. He remembered Pei Gai's care before leaving, and said: "This move is only to frustrate the enemy's momentum and improve his morale, not the final victory. If the situation is not good, you must retreat urgently, and do not delay, so as not to be needless to die or be injured. ”

Therefore, Mo Huaizhong gathered his soldiers and made another sudden breakthrough, forcing the Hu soldiers to form a formation to protect themselves and not dare to attack, so he roared, reflexively killed the Hu camp, boarded the wooden platoon under the cover of his comrades' bows and arrows, and successfully withdrew into the city.

In this battle, the Hu army lost no less than 500, most of the camp tents were burned, and many people took the opportunity to escape - because Liu Yao's so-called 100,000 army, many of which were Ding Zhuang, a Jin man who had been captured over the years, had a chance, how could there be a reason not to escape? Liu Yue wanted to cry without tears, but he didn't dare to hide it-the fire in the camp, I believe that even the north of the city can see it, how can I hide it-I have to wait until dawn to personally go to the north of the city to ask Liu Yao for guilt.

Liu Yao was furious, and immediately ordered Liu Yue to be stripped of all his positions and dismissed him as a pawn - of course, in terms of the relationship between the two of them, this must be only a temporary measure, and Liu Yue will be promoted back soon - and Hu Yanshi will lead the troops to prevent the east of Dali City.

However, when this news came, the siege battle of this day also officially began, and according to the agreement, the Void Division went to attack the Yangma Wall in the north of the city.

Yi Yu was really reluctant to use the cavalry of his headquarters to hit those small low walls, and wanted to let Hu Han's foot soldiers on top first, but Liu Yao only continued to fill in the trenches the day before and did not launch a frontal attack. Since this is the case, there is no precedent to support, what should I do with the sheep and horses?

The so-called sheep and horse wall originally meant that livestock were not allowed to enter the city at will, and could only be temporarily tied outside the city wall, and some low walls that were temporarily built to shelter from the wind for this purpose later developed into an important part of the city defense fortifications. The sheep and horse wall is not a complete wall, at most five zhang wide, scattered and arranged, and there are many gaps in and out. One of its functions is that it can shoot cross-fire with the city, killing and injuring the enemy from different angles; The second function is to protect the city wall - as long as there are sheep and horses, it is impossible for the attacker to put a ladder on the wall.

Therefore, in a sense, the sheep and horse wall is more difficult to attack than the fortress built outside the city, because it cannot be surrounded, and it can be covered by the bow and arrow of the city at any time. Yi Yu now knows that the Jin people have crossbows, shoot on the ground, are strong and accurate, and it is difficult for their own horses and bows to fight; A few days ago, I rushed through, and I knew that the Jin people had spears, but they could stretch out obliquely from the low wall......

He really couldn't think of any good ideas, so he had to temporarily borrow a lot of spears from Liu Yaoshang, wanting to use them against the spearmen of the Jin army. However, after rushing twice in a row, he still suffered heavy losses and returned home.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xi wrote in the "Interpretation of Names and Soldiers" that "the spear is eight feet long, and it is immediately held, and it will be killed if it is said." "At that time, Zhangba was about equal to four meters three in later generations. In the same article, it is also said: "The halberd is said to be constant, six feet long, and it is also held on the car." "Yi spear, Yi, Chang also, its length is six feet...... Also held on the car. "This was the common length of spear weapons at the time.

However, in the Xuzhou army, the infantry spears used to repel horses broke through this value, close to two zhang, that is, 4.8 meters in later generations. There is a cloud in "Examination of Work": "No soldier has three times over his body." "Pei Gai also knew according to the statistics of later generations that the longest spear was no more than five meters, that is, the height of three normal people, if it exceeded this number, it would be completely difficult to control and use—so it was made according to its limit, and it was specially used for restraint riding.

In this case, the spears borrowed by Yiyu still did not have the spear length of the Jin army, and most of the cavalry could only hold the spear with one hand. What's worse is that it is very convenient for the enemy to stab obliquely from the bottom up, and the cavalry stabs from the top down, and the dexterity and power are inferior.

Moreover, if the war horse does not run, but stands in front of the sheep and horse wall, its own flexibility is actually not as good as that of the infantry......

The two armies are facing each other, even if there are thousands of troops and horses, the real striker can not touch too much, Xuzhou is lying behind this section of the sheep and horses, but there are only a few hundred, and the formation is very thin - because there is a city wall behind him, it is impossible and there is no need to thicken the formation - if on the plain, Yi Yu will send out thousands of cavalry, and he can trample on it in an instant, leaving no trace; But in front of the sheep and horse wall, the more cavalry rushed up, the easier it was to be targeted by the archers in the city. Therefore, he could only ride forward in a small team of more than 100 horses, and then was easily blocked back by the Xuzhou soldiers.

Rushed three times, there were nearly 100 corpses in front of the sheep horse wall, especially the corpse of the war horse was huge, as long as two bodies were stacked, it could be next to the top of the wall - the virtual cavalry soon found that what they had to face was no longer the earthen wall, but the moat - it stands to reason that the war horse could jump directly into the trench, but it was a pity that the sheep horse wall was only four or five steps away from the city wall behind him, and there was a strong wall behind it, and the war horse did not dare to jump, and even if he jumped in, it was difficult for the cavalry to turn around under the trench, and it was still a live target......

Yi Yu had no choice but to order a temporary retreat. I saw that Jin people came out one after another in the sheep and horse wall, picked up the human corpse, and carried the horse corpse in, and shouted in unison towards the void department: "Thank you for the meat!" "Although horse meat is not delicious, it is meat after all, even in the Xuzhou army, ordinary pawns have a chance to taste meat every ten or five days.

Yi Yu was so angry that he immediately commanded his soldiers to scold him, shouting: "You only rely on the city wall, how cowardly, can you dare to go out of the city to fight for your life?!" Yi Yu himself rode his tall horse, with a sword in one hand and a spear in the other, and patrolled back and forth beyond the range of arrows, calling out to the battle: "If any warrior dares to go out of the city to fight, and can win the sword and spear in my hand, I will retreat, and I will not attack again!" ”

Most of the Jin people don't understand the words of Di and Qiang, but Yi Yu is a nobleman and can speak a few words of Chinese. ”