Although the local rioters came to Dazhu City, their offensive was very slow. For almost the whole day, the thugs did not take any action. They neither approached the city gate for more than 100 steps, nor did they surround the four gates, and the south and east gates of Dazhu County could even enter and exit freely. It's just that there are constantly local rioters who transport the bamboo cut down from Beishan to create siege equipment such as bamboo ladders and bamboo spears.

Feng Ruhu patrolled the city to check the weak points of the city, and at the same time urged the officers and non-commissioned officers to train recruits. Cai Shaoyun mobilized hundreds of bold young women to go out of the east gate and continue to pick up stones by the small river outside the east gate. A small force of the Tyrants came to harass them once, and the covered muskets fired a salvo and knocked over a few.

The next day, the local tyrants still did not attack the city, but moved to camp and blocked the four gates. There are the largest numbers on the north, west, and south sides without the cover of the river, and it seems that this is the main direction of attack of the local tyrants. Thousands of thug women, and even women with small children, were busy tying long bamboo ladders to the ground right under the noses of the city walls. The soldiers of the village guard team carefully counted the total number of ladders, and there were more than 700 ladders.

After lunch, Feng Ruhu and Cai Shaoyan toured the city again. The two walked for a while, and Cai Shaoxuan couldn't help but ask Feng Ruhu, with his speculation, when will the local rioters start to attack the city, and will the enemy besiege Dazhu for a long time?

"Tomorrow dawn to attack the city." Feng Ruhu replied.

"Why is the captain so sure?" Cai Shaoyan was a little unconvinced.

"Because the thugs haven't eaten for two days. People can go hungry for up to three days. After three days, I was out of energy! ”

Feng Ruhu said, pointing to the deserted camps outside the city: "When they light the fire, they always miss the meal. This shows that they light fires only to keep warm from the cold, not to cook and cook. At the observation post in the city, I haven't seen the thugs eating until now! ”

Feng Ruhu's expression was very calm when he answered, which made Cai Shaoyun, who had no actual combat experience, feel much more at ease. But he still wasn't at ease. Feng Ruhu is a bit of a gimmicky prick, especially fond of killing. The prince was afraid that he would be greedy for merit and miss a big thing, so he specially instructed him to keep an eye on Feng Ruhu before leaving. If Feng Ruhu is too out of line, he must have the "most resolute struggle" with him.

"What if this is just a trick by the thugs?" Cai Shaoyan thought for a long time before he came up with an allusion to express his unease, "Will they use Sun Bin's 'plan to reduce the stove'?" ”

Feng Ruhu finally couldn't pretend anymore, and he laughed out loud.

"You scholars like to talk about this and that, thinking that fighting a war is a plan! It's not complicated to fight, it's just a knife and a gun, you come and go! Those who are vigorous win, and those who are discouraged lose. You say that the thugs pretend to be hungry, adults can pretend to be hungry, and children can pretend to be too? The dolls on the backs of those women were all so hungry that they were dying, they didn't run or make trouble, they didn't even cry, they were clearly hungry and faint! I estimate that tomorrow morning, the leader of the Turbulrs will drive these hungry soldiers to attack the city with all their might. If the city is broken, they will naturally have something to eat, but if the city is not broken, it is useless for these people to keep it! ”

"It turned out to be a plan for hungry soldiers! It's called putting oneself to death and being born after! Cai Shaochen understood. He blushed a little, but he was more worried about the safety of the city.

"Nothing to be afraid of! The soldiers will block, and the water will cover the earth. He has a good plan, I have a wall ladder! Feng Ruhu's expression was a little mysterious, and a little regretful, "It's a pity that Li Hu, who led the troops this time, is just an unknown young general, and he doesn't think he is martial arts!" ”

As the two were talking, a soldier came running to report that black smoke had risen from several villages around the city. Some of the recruits were very emotional and said that it was their village.

Cai Shaoyun and Feng Ruhu glanced at each other, but they saw different things in each other's eyes: one was pity and regret; One is excitement and opportunity.

CAI SHAOYUN'S FIST SLAMMED ON THE HARD MASONRY OF THE BATTLEMENT: "HEAVEN AND EARTH ARE NOT BENEVOLENT, AND ALL THINGS ARE USED AS DOGS; The saint is unkind, and he uses the people as dogs! ”。 The local tyrants plundered the outside of the city, and the recruits in the city had no way to retreat, so the fighting spirit was inevitably increased, but those who refused to go, or walked slowly, suffered from it, and I don't know if the Wang family of Tuanba could escape.

Maybe Feng Ruhu didn't hear what Cai Shaoyan was saying at all, he turned to Feng Xi behind him and said: "Order: Tell the recruits that when the city is broken, the local tyrants will be killed, and the outside of the city is an example." They didn't want to die, so they stepped up their training for Lao Tzu. The battle equipment to defend the city will go to the city tonight, and the personnel will go to the city at four o'clock tomorrow morning. Remember, all the city, men and women, young and old, obeyed the orders of the city. Those who dare to stay in the house will be killed! ”

After sending Feng Xi away, Feng Ruhu asked Cai Shao with a smile: "What is the best weapon to deal with hungry soldiers?" ”

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The morning star rose in the northeast, and the people of Dazhu County had already arrived under the city walls one after another. What they have to pass today will be the ghost gate that will determine life and death.

Women and children silently carried baskets of stones up the city, while men imagined the scene of a fierce battle as they gestured with all kinds of improvised weapons that had only been fiddling for two days.

Among the many improvised weapons, the most common except for bamboo guns is forks, followed by shields. The forks are mostly thick long-stemmed old bamboo, and the top of the bamboo pole is cut open, and the middle is wedged into the bamboo strip to prevent the bamboo pole from being re-closed. Then use a rope to tie the bamboo strips of the wedge and the cut part back and forth to make a fork. One or two people per fork, three steps apart. The task of the forkman is to fork down any ladder that is attached to the head of the city.

There are too many sources of shields. There are dustpans, door panels, bamboo strips, and quilts supported by bamboo poles. The main role of the shield is not to protect against arrows, but against stones. The city wall is only one and a half feet, plus four feet of bricks, but it is only one foot eight or nine feet. Stones can be easily thrown at the top of the city, and if you are strong, you can also throw a short bamboo gun as a javelin.

In addition, of course, the city is indispensable for traditional Chinese fortifications: stoves and iron pots. Boiling water can be boiled in an iron pot, or an even more terrible gold juice can be boiled.

According to the main direction of the soil tyrant's attack, Feng Ruhu made a response to the deployment of troops:

Xu Gou'er's platoon was originally selected by the Chengdu County Huzhuang Cadre Squadron to stay in the Shu Palace, and they were strictly trained, and the proportion of veterans was large after the expansion, so they were placed on the north and west walls of the greatest threat;

Feng Rubiao's platoon was formed improvised, and the quality of officers and men was uneven, so it was placed at the south gate and east gate, where the threat was less;

Han Dashu's expansion was not enough, and there were not many firearms, so they were mainly deployed on the north and west walls as long-range support firepower;

Only one squad was left at the south gate to be in charge of surveillance.

Several key cadres are each responsible for a section of the city wall. The north gate is Feng Ruhu, the west gate is Xu Gou'er, the south gate is Feng Xi, and the east gate is Feng Rubiao. All the personnel of each section of the wall were under the command of these four people.

The people in the city are busy, and the local thugs outside the city are not idle.

The Tyrants tried to line up two hundred paces outside the city. The mobs, men and women, old and old, were driven up from the campfires where they lived. They carried bamboo ladders of varying lengths in front of them, simple and crude weapons in the back, and many carried bamboo baskets full of stones on their backs or on their backs. Two days of hunger shook them, and the winter morning breeze made them shiver. They looked at the city with its food in red eyes, hoping that it would be taken by a violent onslaught. However, they had never undergone rigorous battle formation training, and it took more than an hour to just assemble and line up in a slightly decent formation.

Around the corner, the tyrants finally launched a large-scale siege.

Without temptation, without cover, without any prelude, the Turbulrs launched a general attack on their true face at the beginning. Only a hoarse shout was heard, and a huge roar immediately erupted from outside the city. The heads of people under the city suddenly turned from static to moving, and the heads of people became denser and faster, and soon gathered under the city, turning into an impenetrable surging crowd. The crowd slammed against the thin walls, as if they could be washed away in an instant.

The north gate and the west gate were indeed the focus of the attack.

These two walls are home to about 600 bamboo ladders. The two city walls, which are more than 300 steps wide, were immediately filled with bamboo ladders, and there was no place to put the ladders at night, so they had to stay under the city at will. Countless men and women stood under the bamboo ladder, twisting the ladder tightly with their hands, using their own weight to prevent the bamboo ladder from being overturned by the people in the city; The sturdy men had short knives and knives in their mouths and began to climb upwards with their hands and feet; Many more were two or three feet away from the city wall, throwing stones from their hands to the top of the city, hoping to suppress the defenders of the city with raindrops of stones.

The stone slammed into the city wall. Some of them had a low trajectory and smashed directly into the walls or brick walls, and then fell down again, falling on the unfortunate ones who were holding the ladder below; Some of them had high ballistic trajectories and flew directly over the city walls and landed on the streets of the city roots; Others are impartial and throw right on the city.

The people of the city clung to the back of the brick battlements, and those with shields were on their heads, and those without shields curled up as much as they could, hoping that the battlements would hold back the stones. Every now and then a cry or two rang out, but no one got up. Because they were ordered that only when they saw the red flag raised on the lookout at the city gate was they ready to fight back!

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There is a simple wooden lookout on the four city gates, and the generals of the Shu Wangfu Guardian Team such as Feng Qianzong, Cai Jianjun and Xu Lian Chang are commanding from the lookout.

"Red Flag!"

Han Changsheng roared angrily and handed over the fire fold in his hand, and Xu Gou'er's three red-armored veterans took it without saying anything. On the edge of the fortress was a heavy jar of pickles, and the mouth of the altar was exposed with a small lead. This pickle jar was filled with a ten-pound square gunpowder bag, and more than a dozen catties of pebbles the size of rice balls were compacted around the gunpowder bag. The outside of the jar is densely wrapped in three layers with hay rope, which can reduce the damage of the jar after being thrown down the city.

The veteran lit the fuse with a fire fold.

"Get up, get down!" The three red-armored soldiers violently lifted the jar and let it roll down the battlement.

But in the blink of an eye, a veteran soldier's arm was hit by a flying stone, and he bared his teeth in pain. But he didn't relax, but added dark power ferociously. The heavy pickle jar stopped on the city plate for a moment, and then it fell off the city with unsteady.

The rolling jar threw the lead into the mouth of the altar with white smoke, fell a foot down, and was immediately caught by a bamboo ladder that was built diagonally, so it had to roll down the slope of the bamboo ladder. He fell three feet down again, just in time to hit a thug who was climbing up.

The thug panicked, let go of his hand, and suddenly fell down the ladder, and fell into a ghost crying wolf. The kimchi jar bounced off the flesh and continued to fall, this time smashing directly into the ground, first breaking a head, and then falling to the ground. It bounced on the ground a few times, making the clay pot crack, and then rolled forward.

Rumble! With a loud bang, the shapely kimchi jar vanished in invisible flames and smoke, turning into countless flying stones and broken pottery shards, and finally into a huge scream and tumbling human body.

Dozens of similar jars were pushed out of the north, west, and south walls almost simultaneously. These jars are not necessarily kimchi jars, but may be water jars, grain jars, night pots, etc.

A series of huge explosions woke up the people under the city walls who had lost their minds due to hunger. Their brains suddenly started to understand a simple truth:

Eating is to survive, and if you lose your life, there is no need to eat.

Driven by their survival instincts, they quickly turned around and fled, and even overturned the ladder that stood in their way, throwing the people who climbed on it to the ground. A volley of fierce firearms on the city wall turned this spontaneous escape into a mass panic.

The tide receded instantly, as quickly as it came.

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