Chapter 41: Lost Heart
Three days later, Cao's army arrived, and when Cao Cao, accompanied by Xiao Yi, patrolled around the perimeter of Shouchun City, he didn't say a word about the previous failure in the siege, but ordered to reward those wounded soldiers, they were all warriors?
The city is high, the pool is deep, the water is urgent, the soldiers are heavy, the food is sufficient, the defense system of Shouchun City can be called perfect, especially it can be supplemented by a steady stream of Huainan counties through waterways, Cao Jun is not so much attacking a city, but attacking the entire Huainan, the difficulty of which can be imagined!
No matter how difficult it is, you have to attack, otherwise it will become a joke to send troops to fight thieves, and all the princes of the world will watch it with wide eyes!
In the following days, Cao Cao personally supervised the formation, launched two more attacks, and invested tens of thousands of troops, without exception, all of them ended in failure, and the deep and sharp moat became the biggest obstacle in the attack, and the sandbags used to fill the river were thrown into it, and they were scattered in an instant, no matter how much they were thrown, it could not satisfy its appetite
If you throw boulders to fill the river, the weight is enough, but both sides of the Huai River are impact plains, not to mention boulders, even the pebbles that are fast and big are rare, if you transport stones from the mountains in the distance, the workload is similar to Jingwei reclamation!
After some measurements, more than a dozen dark roads leading to Shouchun City were excavated at the same time, the sound of shovels and shovels continued every day, and the soil dug out could be piled into a hill, but digging and digging, and it didn't work, there were too many rivers in Huainan, the groundwater was abundant, and the water came out of the water when it couldn't dig deep, and the soil was loose, and as a result, more than a dozen tunnels were all flooded and collapsed, and dozens of soldiers were drowned, and this move had to be stopped!
Several attacks were frustrated, Cao Jun had to set up the camp, surround Shouchun City on three sides, and then slowly find a way to deal with this iron walnut that could not be bitten and smashed, and the Yuan army in the city did not have the courage to rush out of the decisive battle, but blindly defended, so this world-renowned war was stalemate.
Is there really a flawless city defense in this world?
No, cities are born to be conquered, there is no city that cannot fall, there is no fortress that cannot be attacked, it is just that you have not found the key to open it!
One day, two days, three days
For several days, Xiao Yi took Xiaobin, Dian Wei and others every morning to run out of the camp on light horses, and then circled around Shouchun City, neither challenging nor scolding, just going around again and again, and stretching out his thumb from time to time, taking turns closing his eyes, using visual differences to measure some data, mysterious and mysterious, no one knows what he is going to do?
A large ball of yellow clay, several large bowls of washed river sand, plus bamboo chips, bamboo strips, bamboo sticks, and bamboo knives, after preparing these tools, Xiao Yi plunged into his big tent and never came out again
"What's so great about a Shouchun city, the dragon can stretch and contract, and the city can also be big or small"
"Don't underestimate my brother, when I was in school, I won a consolation prize in the extracurricular group handicraft category, although it was just a consolation, but it was also a prize......
"Shouchun City, look at how I pinched you in the palm of my hand......, ah, the city gate has fallen"
The words coming from the tent startled Xiao Bin, the Chinese officer in charge of the guards, and he suspected that most of his own governor was frustrated by the attack on Shouchun City, and his heart was rising, and he lost his heart and went crazy?
But he didn't dare to rush in, because Xiao Yi had already confessed that he was doing a big thing, and no one was allowed to disturb him, in desperation, Xiao Bin turned around in place three times, and then ran to invite Guo Jia, usually there are very few people who can enter and leave Xiao Yi's tent at will, and even less than a handful of people, and Guo Jia is definitely one of them!
Because they're the best drinking buddies!
And Guo Jia has no last resort, he is a famous wise man, let him treat the madness, he is definitely the right person!
Hearing that Xiao Yi was in a hurry, Guo Jia, who was sleeping lazily, jumped up with a carp, and he didn't even have time to put on his boots, so he ran over with a wine gourd and scattered his legs
This is the style of the ghost, even if the sky falls, boots can be dispensed with, pants can not be worn, but the wine gourd must not be forgotten
"Xiao Lang, don't panic, I'm here...... Yes! ”
Guo Dastrategist plunged into Xiao Yi's tent, and then let out an exclamation, and then ......, there was no more!
"Oh my God, Dionysian Ancestor is above, how did you come up with this ......?"
"Don't be stunned, come and help ......, you're stupid, the city walls of Shouchun have been trampled on by you, quickly re-glue them"
"Oh, I'm sorry, I drank a few more drinks today, and my feet are a little rootless"
"What's the situation, is it contagious?"
Hearing the conversation coming from the tent, Xiaobin was startled, and one of the feet that had been stretched in was retracted with lightning lightning, he couldn't go in, he was already crazy, and he would go in three more, if everyone was crazy, who would go to someone to help?
It seems that a wise man can't cure madness, so let's go find a few generals who have killed a lot of people and have been stained with blood, and I heard the old people say that evil qi is specialized in breaking madness
So Da Niu, Zhang Liao, Yu Ban, Gao Shun and ...... all came one after another, but none of them went out!
Then Xiahoudun, Xiahouyuan, Li Dian, Le Jin, and Xu Huang also came, and they didn't go out either!
Hell, isn't there a man-eating monster inside?
Why did so many battlefield warriors walk in and become silent?
In the end, Cao Cao, dressed in a handsome red robe and wearing a sword that leaned on the sky, also came under the protection of many guards, he did not believe in evil, but he was very curious, what was it that attracted all the generals in the camp?
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"Wow! Baby! ”
"Magical, incredible, ingenious!"
People who enter the big tent will all sigh like this without exception, I haven't seen him for a few days, the originally handsome Xiao Dadu Governor has become a clay man, and there is no clean place on his body, even the little black face is the same, it is all yellow and clay, fortunately, everyone has good eyes, and they can see clearly, if the eyes are not good, then the first reaction must be that the famous ghost-faced Xiao Lang fell into that
In front of Xiao Yi, a four-foot model of the city with bamboo pieces as bones and yellow mud as the wall is about to be completed, and the strategist Guo Jiazheng pouted his ass and used a small bamboo knife to decorate the bunkers, female walls, and arrow holes on the city wall.
"Shouchun City!"
Everyone recognized it at a glance, yes, it was the first giant in the southeast that made their hundreds of thousands of troops helpless...... Shouchun City. &;&;&;&;&;&;
"I have heard that immortals have the ability to shrink thousands of mountains and take the sun and the moon, but I didn't expect that Xiao Dadu Governor also has such unpredictable means, if it weren't for Shouchun City standing outside the camp, the generals almost thought that Xiao Yi used some demon method to shrink a giant city within a radius of dozens of miles into a radius of several feet and take it."
It's so precise, it's so perfect!
The proportions of each wall, the orientation of each gate, and the pillboxes above
, the female wall, not bad at all, Xiao Yi even made a circular sink out of wood, imitating the appearance of a moat, as long as you push it with a bamboo board, the water can keep flowing, which is the same as in reality!
"This is the treasure of my soldiers, with it, it is enough to increase the chances of victory!" As a contemporary master of the art of war, Cao Cao was the first to understand the role of this model.
With it, you can analyze the battlefield form and troop layout more intuitively, which is many times stronger than the kind of plane sketch that depends on your own thinking, and more importantly, the situation that used to take countless lives to be tested can now be deduced through this city model, and every time it is deduced, it is equivalent to saving the lives of thousands of soldiers!
"The military order of the original minister, this thing is the highest secret in our army, no one is allowed to say it, let alone give it to others, and those who violate the order will be punished as collaborating with the enemy, and they will be beheaded all over the house!" Cao Cao stared, drew his Heavenly Sword, and issued a secret military order with a murderous spirit.
"No! …… We will swear to keep this secret to the death, and we will not tell our parents, and we will not pass on our wives and children! ”
The generals in the tent are all fighting on the battlefield, so they naturally know the importance of this model, Xiao Yi can show it, it is an incomparable trust in everyone, so they have to be worthy of this trust, and they can't say it if they die!
Several of the generals immediately ran out, rearranged the defense near the big tent, increased the number of troops, densely spread the sentry posts, and listed this place as the most important place in the army, and all trespassers were killed!
"Okay" Guo Jia did the last bit of decoration, the sand table model of Shouchun City was finally completed, and the following is to work together to think about how to break the city!