Yi Yu replied to Liu Yao, saying that our department is used to galloping in the plains to win decisive battles, and I am not good at attacking cities, and I will not build any siege equipment like you, so I can't do this first. And when you help fill in the moats and break the sheep and horse walls, and it is better to break through the city gates, I will definitely be the first to rush into the city at that time."

Liu Yao received the reply, and he was really furious - okay, we have done all the difficult things, and even have to break through the city gates, so when the time comes, let you go into the city first to grab the fruits of victory? There is no such thing in the world! Then why am I humbly inviting you to come, where is the big meal?

He immediately replied to Yi Yu by message, provoking him to say: "The general is here, why do you want us to wait for the cooking, and serve the general, please eat enough?" The children in Dali City, the general's carelessness? Wealth has never been splattered with blood and flesh to take it, and there is a reason to have empty gains? "You can figure it out, if you don't make a effort, don't want to be rewarded!

Yi Yu replied that of course I will contribute, otherwise I wouldn't have the face to ask for your reward, right? I know that the Jin have an elite cavalry that is always roaming outside the city, and if our army is attacking the city, they suddenly come out from the flanks, and the situation will be dangerous—as it was when I first came the other day—so I am willing to send troops to hunt down, or at least expel this team. In the preliminary work, I sweep the periphery, and you sweep the inner circle - for example, the moats, sheep and horse walls, and the city gates......

Liu Yao was so angry that he even kicked over a few cases, and almost blurted out: "To Pei Gai, he doesn't have to retreat, break the void with me, cut off the head of the vertical dog, and I will quit!" "Lao Tzu doesn't want Feng Yi anymore, turn around and take it to the county!

He felt that Pei Gai's letter said that he wanted to commit suicide first, no matter how unbearable he said, it was not as angry as this Yiyu.

Chen Yuanda hurriedly said: "The king will temporarily suppress the wrath of the thunder, and if he has eliminated the power canal and handed over tens of thousands of troops to Yi Yu, he will be cautious and dare not throw it; Di and Qiang had never seen Jiancheng, so it was reasonable to be depressed and timid. This ministry was summoned by Yuanda, and it was up to Yuanda to persuade Yiyu to obey. Ran ......" hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "The king wants to make both the void and the Jin people lose and hurt, so as to profit from it, and Yiyu is not a Mengtong, how can he be careless?" It's better to take a step back. ”

Liu Yao pondered for a long time, and in desperation, he had to say: "Okay, take a step back, don't want him to attack the city first, we will work together to attack it." ”

Chen Yuanda ran to Yi Yu's camp tent, so that he could talk about it, and Yi Yu finally agreed, saying that you attack it first, and I will see how the city of this Jin people should be fought, and then change my people to go up. The first step, of course, is to cross the moat first, but the Jin people in the sheep and horse wall rely on bows and arrows, which can cover almost the entire siege team.

Therefore, Liu Yao still waited for five days, and Pei Gai in the city couldn't help but feel a little anxious. In the early morning five days later, after the smoke finally stopped in the Hu camp outside the north gate, the sound of drums was heard, which was endless, and Pei should have retribution, so he hurriedly led the generals to the city to watch.

- The main force of the Hu army, as well as the Void Division, are all stationed in the north of the city, and it is obvious that this must be the main direction of attack.

Liu Yao first recruited 300 powerful soldiers, promised rewards, and ordered them to launch more than a dozen flatbed carts. The cart was full of earth bags, which were covered with large shields in front of them to prevent the Jin army in the sheep and horse wall from shooting with bows and arrows, and wanted to use these earth bags to fill the moats. Urging the drums of war, the Hu army marched forward, and when it was about fifty or sixty paces away from the moat—just a stone's throw away for the Jin army in the sheep and horse wall—some of the Hu troops drew their bows and prepared to shoot at the hostile enemy, and the more than ten carts began to gradually accelerate under the impetus of the soldiers.

He gave an order, the flag was sharpened, and the city corporal saw it, so under the unified command of the captains of each team, he poked his head out from behind the sheep and horse wall and shot with a bow. The first round of arrows was basically nailed to the wooden shield in front of the car, but the archers of the Hu army on the opposite side took advantage of the situation to counterattack and shot four or five Jin soldiers dead.

Immediately, the city was shaking again, and more than 100 archers poked out of the moat and threw arrows into the distance. The big shield can block the front of the car, but it can't cover the back of the car, and for the Hu soldiers under the city, it is quite difficult to shoot arrows at this distance to the head of the city - the healthy soldiers of the cart planted more than a dozen on the spot.

However, more than ten cars, with three hundred soldiers, one fell, and the rest were ignored, and someone rushed to replace them, and the bow and arrow could not stop the momentum of the cart after all, and finally after losing nearly 100 people, more than 100 bags of earth were dumped into the moat. It was only because of their haste and impatience that half of the carts failed to stop the charge, and they also fell into the moat.

Above the city, Pei Zhan was young after all, and he couldn't hold his breath a little, so he lowered his voice and asked Pei Gai: "Brother, why don't you throw stones from the artillery cart?" It will be able to strangle the enemy's vehicles. Pei Gai smiled and shook his head: "The artillery truck is difficult to get accurate, and the car launched by Hu Jun is not dense, and he deliberately evacuates, so the artillery attack will inevitably be twice the result with half the effort." And in Liu Yao's army, there are more than a dozen cars, this is just a test to attack the ear, so there is no need to rush first. ”

The army is moving forward, and the grain is followed, and it is impossible to rely on the auxiliary soldiers to carry it on their shoulders - how much weight can it be carried - especially in the north of Feng Yi, although the terrain is quite high, the mountains and hills are not dense, and the roads are relatively flat. It is estimated that if Liu Yao pushes out all the vehicles in the battalion, it will be overwhelming enough to crowd the entire north of the city, and it will not be too late to launch artillery attacks when the time comes.

As Pei Gai expected, Liu Yao was trying to attack, and then used similar means twice, filling five or six hundred earth bags into the moat. However, the Dali moat was very wide and deep, and the Hu army did not dare to gather in the same direction for fear of being shot by bows and arrows, so it had little effect.

Liu Yao is just showing Yiyu, look, the moat is filled in like this, I have already filled it in for a day, and you will come tomorrow.

On the second day, it was Yiyu's turn to attack, but he did not push out the cart - first, there were not many vehicles in the Void Division, and second, he did not have Liu Yao's wealth and wealth, so he was really reluctant to lose it—but ordered the elite under his command to carry a dirt bag for each horse, and immediately the knight protected himself with a shield, held a horse bow, and shot at the city, while galloping quickly close to the moat, and then throwing the dirt bag down.

Dealing with a moving target that moves so fast, the power of the bow and arrow projectile in the city is further reduced, but correspondingly, the bow and crossbow behind the sheep and horse wall shoot flat, because there is no big shield to block it, but it has shot nearly a hundred void cavalry. Yi Yu couldn't help but send someone to ask Liu Yao, saying that I thought that the Jin people had a soft bow and didn't want to shoot so far, and they were quite accurate, what is the reason?

Liu Yao replied to him: "After the sheep and horses, I am afraid that there are a lot of crossbow machines. ”

Yi Yu immediately made a request, saying that when Dali is captured, you will have to give me all the crossbows in the city. Liu Yao laughed "haha" and said: "Let's wait for the city to break, it's all good to discuss." ”

On this day, although the cavalry galloped back and forth, the damage was still greater than that of the Hu soldiers on the previous day, but the effect was small, and almost forty percent of the dirt bags were thrown on the edge of the moat, and they could not really be thrown in. On the evening of the same day, countless long ladders suddenly poked out from behind the sheep and horse walls, and the Jin soldiers stepped on the ladders to cross the moat, raising their voices and making noise. Liu Yao had already prevented the Jin people from robbing the camp, and he had already made strict arrangements, and he didn't care, who wanted the Jin people but didn't come to attack, but just carried back all the dirt bags on the side of the moat, and took away a lot of the dirt bags in the trench with a hook, so as to repair the city defense in the future......

The next day, he refused to attack again, and informed Liu Yao, saying that I died a lot yesterday, and you are here today, so let's take turns, and no one will take advantage of it. Liu Yao was so hateful that he almost gritted his teeth, but he couldn't think about it, so he had to beat the drum and send troops, this time using thousands of soldiers and pushing hundreds of vehicles, vowing to fill in a certain section of the city trench in one fell swoop.

In Dali City, the artillery truck was finally used. This is a counterweight trebuchet carefully developed by Pei Gai and Xu Yu, twenty of which are placed on the inner side of the city wall, and the direction and range are found in advance, and they will not move; In addition, ten small movable catapults were set up in the city, and at the sound of an order, the rocks covered the sky and the sun......

To tell the truth, although Liu Yao has been in battle for a long time, he has never seen so many artillery trucks......

In fact, this kind of military equipment has been invented as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Jia Kui (Eastern Han Dynasty scholar Jia Jingbo, not later Cao Wei famous minister Jia Liangdao) quoted the so-called "Fan Li Art of War", and said: "Flying stone, twelve catties, for the machine, two hundred steps." According to historical records, only when Cao Cao confronted Yuan Shao in Guandu, "it was a stone cart, hitting (Yuan) Shaolou, all broken, and Shaozhong was called a thunderbolt car."

Therefore, although there is this thing in the Jin army, there are not many people who have made and used it before, and when the world is in turmoil, all the warlords from all walks of life are in financial distress, and only more people will win, and no one will build artillery trucks on a large scale. It was the first time Hu Jun had seen such a sight of flying rocks in the sky—as big as a soup wok, and as small as a fist—hundreds of people were frightened and panicked, abandoned the vehicle, turned around and fled.

However, because of the cushion of the soil bag, there were not many carts that were actually smashed, but the stones bounced up, causing a lot of damage to the Hu soldiers who pushed the cart. Liu Yao set up his own soldiers behind the battle, holding long knives in his hands, and whenever he fled empty-handed, he immediately cut off his head—those who came back with empty carts can be pushed, let's load the dirt bags again, and then go up—and killed more than 100 people, and finally dumped half of the earth bags into the moat.

After another rotation, on the fifth day of the siege, I saw that there was already a splash of water in the trenches, and perhaps one more rush would fill a short distance. It's a pity that the Hu army has suffered three or four hundred casualties—half of them were beheaded by Liu Yao's own soldiers—and their morale has been demoralized, and it is really difficult to attack again. Liu Yao is so angry, he doesn't hate to fall short, he hates that tomorrow it will be the turn of the Void Division to attack, and this credit was given to Yi Yu in vain!

Sure enough, the next day, Yi Yu repeated his old tricks, and then made the cavalry fill the trench with earth—he couldn't think of any other tricks—and only three times back and forth, and a three-zhang long section of the trench was roughly filled, and the cavalry could already rush through it with a dirt bag. He was about to withdraw his troops, but he heard Liu Yao's drums beating non-stop in the formation, clearly urging him, and in desperation, he had to grit his teeth and wave his sword to order the soldiers: "Give me a rush!" ”

Inside the sheep and horse wall and on the city wall, there are arrows like rain, but the soldiers of the void division are used to riding and shooting, and they naturally have a lot of experience in avoiding arrows. It's just that the war horse naturally stopped in front of the wall—the thing was more than half a man tall, and it was obviously not a one-time collapse, and there was a city wall behind it, and it was impossible to jump in—and then countless spears stretched out from the wall, piercing the tip of the spear one by one with blood on the empty cavalry or men or horses.

There was little that could be done about it—most of them had only long knives in their hands, few spears, and even if they did, they were shorter than the infantry spears of the Jin army in the wall; If you don't get close to the sheep and horse wall, draw the bow and shoot it, and the bow cannot be compared with the hard crossbow in terms of strength and accuracy......

In the end, after Yi Yu threw down more than 100 corpses, he had to retreat in embarrassment - but to a certain extent, he killed and injured a lot of Jin troops, and it is estimated that more than 10% of his own losses were lost......

Yi Yu is also good at counting - Di and Qiang are just lower cultural levels than the Jin people, but they are not complete barbarians - go back and take the branches to write and draw on the land, I have a total of nearly two hundred injuries today, and the return Jin army is about twenty or thirty killed, even if it is doubled, fifty, then I have 30,000 soldiers and horses, exchanging lives for lives, how many Jin people can kill and injure?

After finishing the calculation, he threw the branch fiercely, and his heart said that this can't be done! Let's watch Liu Yao attack tomorrow, and see what way he has to deal with this short sheep and horse wall.

Originally, this was less than a person's high earthen wall, if it was on the grassland of Shangjun, Yi Yu Zhengyan might not be willing to look at it. But the problem was that the moat was only three zhang wide, and it was so wet and rough that the cavalry could not quickly cross the front of the wall and shoot the enemy soldiers inside the wall with bows and arrows, and there was a high wall behind the sheep and horse wall...... I can't fight this, so Liu Yao, you should send the infantry up and bite hard.

However, Liu Yao did not attack the next day, because when the sky was bright, he suddenly received a letter that because the moat was blocked and the moat was flooded, Liu Yue's camp in the east of the city was flooded......

The Dali moat is the diversion of the Beiluo water infusion, from the south of the city to the east, and then around to the north of the city, straight to the west of the city, which is blocked in the north of a section, the east of the city immediately flooded. The terrain in the east of the city was originally gentle, Pei Cai dug a lot of pits and took a lot of soil in order to build the city fortifications, which can really be said to be "three feet high", so on the evening of the same day, Liu Yue's camp was a muddy. Fortunately, it is only a diversion, not a more stream, and the weather is still dry in the past few days, and there is no rain, otherwise, it is estimated that the camp in the east of the city will completely become Zeguo......

Liu Yue was forced to move the camp, but fortunately, it is estimated that in this situation, it is unlikely that the Jin army in the city will rush out from the east gate. For this reason, Liu Yao re-examined his camp in the north of the city and was forced to delay for a day.

However, unexpectedly, on the evening of the next day, the Jin people actually opened the east gate, broke through the mud, and attacked Liu Yue's camp......