Jiangzhou City is actually near Chongqing in later generations, and it is easy to defend and difficult to attack by the rivers and mountains. Before the Qin people came to Jiangzhou, the Shu people had regarded this place as their capital for many years. The city defense was not built unsolidly, and Yun Yue saw a tall city in the telescope. There are still traces of fireworks on the green city wall, and there are still corpses under the city wall that will have time to be buried in the future. It can be seen that although the rebels captured Jiangzhou, they also paid a great price.

It was very difficult to capture the city during the Warring States period, and one side wanted to enter the city and the other side was not allowed to enter the city. Both sides had to fight around the walls and gates, and the result was usually bloody.

After the attackers have paid heavy casualties, they invade the city and begin bloody revenge, which has an exclusive term in history - massacre! And once the defenders choose to defend, they will also hold on to the walls and gates endlessly, allowing the besiegers to shed their last drop of blood.

Offense and defense, these two basic situations of war. In the battle to defend the city, the cruelty of the war is put in front of the people.

Yun Yue was a little puzzled, just relying on the rebels' military strength and weapons. Carrying a ladder to climb the head of the city, he was able to defeat the Qin army of 40,000 armed to the teeth. No matter how I think about it, I feel a little fantastical, and I haven't figured out why I have been looking at it in the telescope for a long time.

"Did you catch your tongue?" Yun Yue put down the binoculars and said to the person behind her.

"I caught it, but it's all small characters. There are various confessions, and subordinates don't know which sentence is true. Ao Canghai replied a little helplessly.

Now wandering around the periphery of Jiangzhou, there are some small fish and shrimp, and the big man is not. It is also difficult for the killers to capture the prisoners. These guys see the enemy. Reflexively shoots. When the arrow is shot, remember to keep it alive. Arrows that can be shot will not fly back no matter how they are summoned.

Thanks to Yun Yue's perverted training, the arrows shot by the killers like to greet their heads. It seems that otherwise, they cannot show their excellent archery skills. As a direct consequence, many corpses lying outside Jiangzhou City that had been shot through the head were lying outside.

"Master Hou! These Shu people have not yet opened their minds, and they have no understanding of numbers at all. They knew a lot about it, but the general estimated that there were at least sixty or seventy thousand rebels in the city of Jiangzhou. Seeing Yun Yue asking, Hengya hurriedly stood up and said.

"Oh, where did the information come from?" Yun Yue asked curiously.

"Master Hou, please see, Jiangzhou City has four city walls. The rebels above stood densely packed. Almost to the point of one step at a time. It is estimated that there are about 30,000 or 40,000 people, and the guards of the city cannot be sent up all at once, because the city wall cannot stand, and there are too many people to crowd and hinder things. Second, it is necessary to be on duty in shifts, so as to maintain sufficient physical strength and combat strength of the soldiers.

The carved lion was severely injured by our army, and its life and death are unknown, and it is rumored that Qi Ling is also a person who knows the soldiers. If my guess is correct, he will divide the soldiers into two groups. In this way, the number of defenders in the city is roughly about seventy or eighty thousand. "It's worthy of being a general who has defended Pingliang, just by looking at the people standing on the city wall, you can guess the number of people.

"If it's General Perpetual Tooth, you're going to attack. How many people will we lose? ”

"Master Hou! Now the rebels have been defeated by our cavalry, and they are cowering in Jiangzhou City and cannot come out. The defenders on the walls were outnumbered. It also seized a large amount of ordnance from the former Jiangzhou defenders. If our army forcibly attacks the city, I am afraid that the casualties will be very large. The art of war is to surround it with ten, attack it with five, fight it with a multiplier, divide it with the enemy, defend it if it is less, and avoid it if it is not.

The number of our army is twenty or thirty thousand more than the rebels, I am afraid ......! Permanent Tooth said with some hesitation.

"You mean that the casualties are heavy and our forces are not enough to besiege them?" Yun Yue asked with a smile.

"Exactly, the city of three miles and the Guo of seven miles. The current number of our army is not qualified to besiege the city to death. It was precisely because of this that the rebels were ready to defend the city. After all, our army came from afar, and the weather in Bashu was different from that in Guanzhong. The soldiers were tired from the long journey, and now some of them were sick. If there is an epidemic, the consequences are unimaginable. ”

When the people of Guanzhong arrived in Bashu, it was common for them to be unaccustomed to the water and soil. Yun Yue had long been mentally prepared for this, and besides, these soldiers under his command were all drawn from the garrison soldiers from all over the country. After two thousand miles of torture on the Golden Bull Road, the body was already quite exhausted. Now forcibly attacking the city, there is little certainty. Fearing that Jiangzhou does not have sufficient troops, the army seems to be in a dilemma here.

"Yes! The Yiqu cavalry can't participate in the siege yet, and our troops are not enough. However, Ben Hou has a way to besiege this Jiangzhou city to death. We'll just have to wait here until they starve to death. Yun Yue touched the beard growing on her chin and said.

There is no better plan for poison than starvation, and there is no worse plan for evil than arson. Hearing this, Hengya shuddered all over his body, and this Marquis Yun looked at his kind eyebrows. But the words that can be said are chilling.

"Catch the people, dig a trench! Along this Jiangzhou city, dig three trenches. Supplemented by a strong crossbow to guard it, as long as it comes out of the city, it will be shot to death by Lao Tzu.

In order to support the battlefield on the Eastern Front, Jiangzhou City had just paid taxes and was besieged by rebels for a long time. It is estimated that there is not much food left in the city, nearly 100,000 rebels plus the people in the city. With so many mouths to eat every day, let's see how long they can last. ”

What Yun Yue was most afraid of was that she was not qualified to besiege Jiangzhou, so Qi Ling led people out to fight guerrillas with her. Now that this thing is actually staying in the city, what is the politeness. Dig trenches and wait for the rebels to starve to death. The Qin army can also take turns to rest and recover their strength, and wait to enter the city to collect the corpses.

"Whoa!" Hengya, Li Xin, and Gao Hu listened to Yun Yue's words, and they all bowed their heads. They are all perennial troop leaders, so they naturally know the fierceness of siege warfare. They are very happy to be able to fill it without risking their own lives.

Although there was a rebellion in Jiangzhou, there were still many people in the vicinity who did not participate in the rebellion. Began to recruit a large army of people, but also met with local resistance. Although they did not support the rebels, they did not treat the GIs very well. Even if he is caught in the barracks, he is a foreign grinder who does not work.

But when Yun Yue took out the copper coin, he was tempted by Chi Guoguo. The number of people and the degree of hard work have undergone earth-shaking changes.

Kirin stood on the city wall and watched it for a morning before he could not stand it, his face full of panic. Those stupid rebel soldiers didn't know why the Qin army was digging in the soil, but he did. If the trench was successfully built by the Qin army, then Jiangzhou City would not be able to run out of even a mouse. Eventually, the people of the city will be trapped alive.

After more than a month of fierce fighting, Jiangzhou City was burned by the Qin army when it broke the city, with a small amount of grain in stock. The permanent tooth was misestimated, and Yun Yue was also wrong. There are now 110,000 rebels in Jiangzhou City, and the reason why they were not sent to the city wall is very simple, there are not so many people standing on the city wall.

110,000 people, plus the surviving people in the city, add up to nearly 300,000. These many people have to consume a huge amount of food every day, and thinking about the miserable situation after the food shortage, Qi Ling's heart fell to the bottom.

The closed gates of Jiangzhou opened, and a large group of rebels rushed out with shields in their hands. In any case, the Qin army could not be allowed to build a trench, even if it was a decisive battle under the city. In order to break Yun Yue's cage policy, Qi Ling also let it go.

Before the rebels could break out of the city gates, several black javelins burrowed into the dense crowd. Like a string of sugar gourds, people are dressed into human strings, and the huge kinetic energy of the three-bow bed crossbow directly shoots seven or eight people in pairs.

The sound of tearing linen rang out one after another, and the screams and wails in the city gate cave rang out one after another. In the face of the enormous power of the three-bow bed crossbow, the shield is simply a layer of paper. A string of rebels were shot and killed, and in an instant, rivers of blood flowed from the gates.

"Leader, we can't rush out!" The rebel leader looked at the three-bow bed crossbow that was fired in turn, and the sound of tearing linen was heartbreaking. I have never seen anything so powerful, and it can shoot hundreds of steps with a single arrow. Shoot more than a dozen people, this is simply a nightmare for the rebels.

Qi Ling naturally heard the screams of the rebels at the head of the city, and also saw those huge crossbow arrows firing bows and arrows non-stop. He knew that the Qin crossbow was sharp, but he had never seen such a sharp Qin crossbow.

"Shoot, shoot them." Kirin roared and pointed at the three-bow bed crossbow colony outside the city.

After capturing Jiangzhou, the rebels still captured some Qin crossbows that had not had time to be destroyed. In addition, some craftsmen were captured, and some Qin crossbows were also repaired. There were still a lot of Qin crossbows on the city wall, but the arrows shot by the Qin crossbow were still a hundred steps away from the three-bow bed crossbow, so they were no longer able to fly and fell to the ground lightly. It's not a threat to the three-bow bed crossbow!

"......!" Yun Yue chuckled. No matter how powerful the Qin crossbow is, can there still be a three-bow bed crossbow that can shoot far? If it is not as big as the Qin crossbow, such a big body as the three-bow bed crossbow is almost white.

Qi Ling's heart was cold when he saw the arrows that shot in the air, and this is really called nothing to do. You can't rush out, and you can't be trapped in a lonely city. Under the rush of fire, a mouthful of blood spurted out.

"Big head, ......!" A group of rebel leaders rushed up and carried Kirin back. The huge gates of Jiangzhou City were then closed.

After seven days of excavation, the first trench besieging Jiangzhou City was finally completed.

This ditch surrounds the city of Jiangzhou, and the depth reaches one zhang wide and two zhang. A large amount of groundwater seeped out from the bottom of the pit, and in just one day the trench became a moat. The unicorn who was propped up the city wall was almost desperate, because as far as the eye could see, the people were still digging a second trench in the distance. It is estimated that there will be a third and fourth way, and even if the rebels dig tunnels, they may not be able to dig out the city. (To be continued.) )