595. Improved Siege (1)

There are only two people under Yuan Shu, Zhang Xun and Ji Ling, who can be regarded as general-level talents who can take their hands, but unfortunately there are no military division-level talents on Wenchen's side.

On Yuan Shu's side, Yang Hong is barely a confidant military advisor, but his ability is not very strong, and he is a greedy person, who is easy to be bought with money, and there is also a master Yan Xiang, who barely has some military background, but unfortunately Yuan Shu does not pay attention to it.

Therefore, if Yuan Shu's subordinates even had a third-rate or second-rate military talent such as trial and matching, Feng Ji, it is estimated that Yuan Shu would not end up like this, at least the two of them are characters who can plan and have military strategy.

Well, this can only say that Yuan Shu really lacked the talent base in the Three Kingdoms era.

As far as Zhang Xun and Ji Ling under Yuan Shu's account are concerned, Ji Ling seems to be more famous than Zhang Xun, but in fact, he is still a little inferior to Zhang Xun.

Ji Ling is more suitable to serve as the guard of Yuan Shu's own soldiers, in history, Ji Ling seems to have only played in the battle when Yuan Shu conquered Liu Bei in Xuzhou, and during this period, Ji Ling did not fall behind because he and Guan Yu were alone for dozens of rounds, so he left a name in history with the name of Guan Yu.

But later, Ji Ling was still reconciled by Lu Buyuan's halberd, so he could only let Liu Bei go and returned in vain.

Later, when Yuan Shu was down, Ji Ling guarded Yuan Shu and wanted to flee to Yuan Shao in the north, but was intercepted by Liu Bei in Xuzhou, and Ji Ling was killed by Zhang Fei in this battle.

It can be said that Yuan Shu rarely sends Ji Ling out to fight, and basically lets Ji Ling act with Yuan Shu.

However, Zhang Xun is different, in many battles encountered by Yuan Shu in history, Zhang Xun appeared as the commander of the army, no wonder after Yuan Shu became the emperor, Zhang Xun would also be named a general.

In terms of Zhang Xun's character attributes, his force has indeed entered the ranks of second-rate generals (in the Three Kingdoms game, it is the same force as Ji Ling), his intelligence and charm are also good, and his military command ability can be regarded as entering the second-class ranks.

Now that Yuan Shu has assigned Zhang Xun to guard the south gate, it can also be seen that Yuan Shu's fear of Zhu Wei is even better than Cao Cao, who has just defeated his subordinates several times.

Well, these are not much nonsense, just to say that above the south gate of Shouchun, Yuan Shu's army saw Zhu Wei's army attacking, and under the command of that Zhang Xun, it was also preparing for defense in an orderly manner.

Whether it was on the wall of Shouchun or on the wall of the urn city outside the southern city gate, Yuan Shu's soldiers were basically prepared with bows and crossbows, and they could deal with the attack of Zhu Wei's army at any time.

After Zhu Wei's siege army left the large army camp, he came to a place one mile outside the south gate of Nashouchun City in a goose-shaped formation and stopped.

Later, from Tai Shici's Divine Arrow Battalion, there was a general in his twenties, holding a spear and lance, and rode his horse to the south gate of Shouchun, but it was Chen Wu, the old general of Sun Ce, who was assigned by Zhu Wei in the Divine Arrow Battalion.

This Chen Wu's loyalty can now be regarded as more than sixty, and with his near-second-rate martial arts, in addition to Tai Shici, he can also be called one of the best masters in the Divine Arrow Battalion.

"Well, the rebellion in the city has listened, Yuan Shu's rebellion and rebellion is really a great crime of rebellion, and now my lord is rebelling against the edict of the Son of Heaven, if you are acquainted, open the city and surrender as soon as possible, otherwise once the city is broken, you will be guilty of the same crime, and you will have to accompany Yuan Shu to die!"

Chen Wu shouted loudly in his mouth, which could be regarded as announcing the battle letter to the Yuan Shu soldiers in the city, and then with a wave of the gun in his hand, he rode his horse and quickly slipped around the city of Shouchun to show his disdain for the defenders in the city.

Although some defenders on the city wall shot feather arrows at him, Chen Wu was extremely fast on horseback, and many feathered arrows could only fall behind him, and a few threatening feather arrows were also pushed away by him with a lance.

After galloping on his horse in this lap, seeing that Chen Wu returned to the city gate safe and sound, still provoking towards the Shouchun city wall, Zhu Weijun couldn't help but cheer loudly, and their morale couldn't help but rise a few points.

This is the meaning of the military general's life risking the challenge.

It's just that Zhang Xun, the guard on the south gate of Shouchun City, was also unmoved, although with the outbreak of this war, Yuan Shu's army helped Yuan Shu break off again and again, but again and again from Ku County to Qi County, and from Qi County to Shouchun, which can be regarded as a series of defeats, morale is low.

But Yuan Shu's army can be regarded as having experience in repeated defeats and battles, and besides, Kuxian and Qi County could not be compared with the city defense of Shouchun City before, so at this moment, Zhang Xun stood on the towering gate tower of Shouchun City, just calmly looked at the provocative Chen Wu, and ignored this kind of thing at all.

Zhang Xun knew very well in his heart that it was not certain whether today's war could happen, after all, the moat outside Shouchun City was not dug in vain.

And Chen Wu, who was responsible for boosting morale, after provoking in front of the south gate of Shouchun City, returned to the main formation of the Divine Arrow Battalion, obviously he knew that no one in Shouchun City would come out to fight him alone.

So with the transmission of the military order from Zhu Wei's rear, a sound of gongs and drums sounded, and two thousand sword and shield hands came out from the Divine Arrow Camp and the Xionglu Camp, forming a shield formation of one or two hundred people, and slowly passed in front of Shouchun City.

In the end, these sword and shield hands stood in front of the gate of the urn outside the south gate of Shouchun City, standing still like rocks against the feathered arrows shot from the city wall.

The defenders on the city wall shot a few rounds of feather arrows, but found that there was no meaning, so under the orders of some commanding generals, they also stopped shooting arrows, just waiting for Zhu Wei's army to continue the next move.

Then I saw that there were five or six siege arrow tower carts in the middle of Zhu Wei's army pushing towards Shouchun City, and then standing behind those sword and shield hands, they began to shoot feather arrows at the city wall, which made the Yuan Shu defenders on the city wall outside the city gate panic.

Then there were twenty or thirty cave house cars, protecting nearly a thousand auxiliary soldiers inside, and they pushed in the direction of the moat outside Shouchun City.

It turned out that those sword and shield men had also learned the lessons of their previous experience in Anhui County, Lujiang County, and went to the front to set up a formation first to prevent Yuan Shu's soldiers from coming out of the city, so as to protect the auxiliary soldiers in these cave houses and cars to fill the moat with peace of mind.

And the auxiliaries who were hiding in the cave house car went to the moat under the protection of the cave house car and began their work one after another.

Some of the soldiers first pulled out the door-like pontoons from the cave house and laid them on the moat, and then pulled them with ropes that were fastened to the side of the pontoons to prevent them from being swept away by the rushing water in the moat.

Then wooden stakes were laid on both sides of the pontoon to make the pontoon float more fixed on the moat, and then a skateboard was built on the pontoon to evenly slide bags of sediment onto the pontoon.

In this way, the floating board is sunk by gravity, but under the pull of the rope and the fixation of the wooden stakes on both sides, it will not be washed out by the water of the moat, but will sink into the river and float slightly.

As the first floating board sank with a load, the auxiliary soldiers hiding in the cave house car spread the previous skateboard on the mud and sand bags piled on the first floating board, forming a flat plate again, and then laying bags of sediment on it, so that a man-made embankment appeared on the moat, gradually cutting off the water of the moat.

Because there is an arrow plate sticking out at the front of the cave house, the auxiliaries are not afraid of the threat of bows and arrows from the defenders on the city wall when they hide below, and their actions of filling the moat are also trained, which seems smooth and orderly.

At this time, in front of the moat outside the southern wall of Shouchun City, there are often three or four cave house cars side by side.

As the planks between the cave houses were removed, a two- or three-meter-high wooden house was formed in front of the moat, allowing the auxiliaries inside to have more space to move.

This can be regarded as the result of Zhu Wei's side gradually transforming the cave house car according to the needs of the siege after attacking the city again and again.

In the end, these cave houses can even be turned into anti-arrow fortifications used by the soldiers of the Zhu Guards to avoid the arrows on the city and wait to climb the city wall, and they are a safe rest area for the siege soldiers, so after filling in the moat, there is no need to withdraw directly as at the beginning......